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Gerry StPierre	Jul 4 2009, 01:52 AM
Just registered Posts: 14 Group: Members Member #3,269 Joined: June 5, 2009	Hmmm, it appears I misread the article a bit. The UPenn math professor was Jefferson's correspondent, not the person who solved it. That honor goes to Quote: The cipher finally met its match in Lawren Smithline, a 36-year-old mathematician. Dr. Smithline has a Ph.D. in mathematics and now works professionally with cryptology, or code-breaking, at the Center for Communications Research in Princeton, N.J., a division of the Institute for Defense Analyses. I agree that it presents a simpler challenge than Chaocipher does. Quote: The overall calculations necessary to solve the puzzle were fewer than 100,000, which Dr. Smithline says would be "tedious in the 19th century, but doable."


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