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Re:200-year-old ciphers may reveal the location of treasure ... by raverbashing on Sunday June 17, 2018 @07:35AM (#17331936)
There's a world of difference between a substitution cypher that maps the same characters to the same code points and one that doesn't.

The former is trivially crackable and the latter is a "one time pad" hard (which is how the texts were created)

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