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Re:89, 263, 201, 500, 337, 480 by colanderman on Friday December 18, 2015 @01:35PM (#10760035)
Probably the differences from the alphabet are just mistakes. Ward meant to just encrypt the alphabet, but just copied down a couple numbers wrong, and did a couple twice.
Re:89, 263, 201, 500, 337, 480 by shmageggy on Friday December 18, 2015 @09:13PM (#10762309)
Perhaps, but I think it equally or even more likely that it was intentional. This is someone who went through immense trouble to set up a system that is otherwise rather elaborate and detailed. Maybe he just hacked together the last bit and botched it with a ~25% error rate, or maybe there's more to the story that we've yet to figure out.