1995-07-23 - Re: HOUDINI ON CRYPTO

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From: blancw@accessone.com
To: Sandy Sandfort <cypherpunks@toad.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1995-07-23 03:30:10 UTC
Raw Date: Sat, 22 Jul 95 20:30:10 PDT

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From: blancw@accessone.com
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 95 20:30:10 PDT
To: Sandy Sandfort <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Subject: Re: HOUDINI ON CRYPTO
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From: Sandy Sandfort 

. . . there is a section about Houdini's fascination with
cryptography.  He talks about relatively primative substitution
ciphers and the like.  One example, though, I thought might be of
interest to Cypherpunks.  He said the following inscription was
written over the Decalogue in a country church.  Apparently, no
one was able to read it for over 200 years.  Can you?:

		PRSRVYPRFCTMNVRKPTHSPRCPTSTN
....................................

It looks to be something like this to me:

PRESERVE YE PERFECT MEN ?VR? KEEP THIS PERCEPT (or PRECEPT) SATAN


  ..
Blanc





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