bigscoop
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"Thomas Beale, of 10 Canal Street, New Orleans, knew Jean Laffite, and they shared the same attorney, John Randolph Grymes, 99 Canal Street."
ESC, please tell me which one is the real pirate in that group?
Where to now? I just want to know what was the key to the other two codes?
Most likely there never was a key, this just being another hooking device in the story. However, if there was a key then it was nothing like the key presented in the narration. What is most obvious in the other two ciphers is that they are nothing like C2, C3 having a much smaller range of code and more repeated code and C1 having a much broader range of code and 19 four digit codes, the only cipher utilizing these four digits codes other then "1000" that appeared in C2 as a substitute for "x" since the presented key had no words beginning with "x". But like everything else in this story there is nothing to go on, no provenance and nothing to place restrictions on the human imagination and so these random numbers are then subject to becoming representative of anything anyone desires them to represent. This we have seen being played out time and time again over the years, the complete unknowns within the ciphers allowing the assignment of anything to each code, thus the reason for so many completely different solutions.