Codebreakers Find ‘Sexts,’ Arctic Dispatches In 200-Year-Old Encrypted Newspaper Ads

With that knowledge, Dunin explained that she and the two other codebreakers started looking at groups of four and three letters in the encrypted messages. All letters in these groups were G to Q, and there were also capital letters only from B to F, and there were also bits and pieces of cleartext sprinkled through the messages.

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