El "doh!". I know you worked hard to learn as much as you could about ciphers (
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), so you could talk about them, but the discussion is all over the place. It is erronous to think pilots are generally trained in reading codes and ciphers... to the point of it being almost comedic!
LIKE YOUR DENIAL THEME HERE ?>>> Pilots
(PEOPLE WHO FLY PLANES) in any capacity would not have the amount of time resources to become proficient in ciphering
BUT A RETIRED VET WOULD LOVE ITS LIKENESS TO A GOOD CROSSWORD. I flew in the USN and it wasn't until moving laterally into the intel pileline that the thought of ciphering even came up
BUT YOU SURE DID DIDNT YOU. So I do have enough of a background to know that you are stretching some things and taking all the rest out of context.
Example: a solution to any code wouln NOT be in a short hyphenated or shorthand format. Really!? Do you honestly believe anyone would leave a message important enough to encrypt up for interpretation!?
WRONG: COMPLEX LETTERING SEQUENCES ARE SOMETIMES DIFFICULT TO PRODUCE IN PERFECT COMBINATIONS TO CONVEY THE EXACT MESSAGE....?>YOU EVER TRIED IT<?
SO ONE BRANCH OF CRYPTOGRAPHY IS CALLED STEGANOGRAPHY, AND A VERSION OF STEGANOGRAPHY IS CALLED STENOGRAPHY........USING STENNOS........
THAT'S RIGHT THERE IS A REASON FOR IT AND IT DOES RELATE TO THE BIG PICTURE.
GUESS WHAT >>>>>>> STENNOS BACKWARDS SPELLS
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YOU DO KNOW THAT THIS AFTER-THE-FACT DENIAL YOU ARE PRESENTING AS YOUR REASONING, USING YOUR ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT FENN'S INTELLIGENCE AND CAPACITY FOR LEARNING, IS OBVIOUSLY NOT THE ISSUE.....WHETHER OR NOT HE COULD ADAPT TO PICK THIS UP IS A MOOT POINT....
WHAT THE POINT IS, CONCERNS WHETHER OR NOT YOU YOURSELF CAN LEARN A NEW TRICK OLD DOG.>>>>>>>WOOF WOOF
Save you breath
" L Dough.
" USING MEMBERS NAMES IS A BANNABLE OFFENSE......Only true conspiracy theorists
(NOW YOU ARE INSULTING ME) would accept the "code" approach, and true experts maybe giggle a little, but now it's getting old.
I CAN TELL THAT"S YOUR ULTIMATE FEAR....LOL
Here's a possibility though if you want to pursue the Vigenere cipher thought... use the words "thrill of the chase" as your key.
WHY? YOU HAVEN'T FOUND JACK DIDDLY WITH THAT......LOL
BTW, you mixed up your explanations of the various cipher techniques, much the way a person cramming knowledge of a subject would do while trying to recall the details. Of course this is just IMHO, based on my years of cryptology, field operations and electronic warfare in the military. But what do I know.
INTELLIGENCE?
One small little addendum.... many of your clues are not permanent objects or places. A hundred years from now, how many of your relied upon clues would even exist?