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> attempting to use the Declaration of Independence again on the first note yielded several sequences along the lines of ‘abfdefghiijklmmnohpp’.

If the two un-decyphered noted use the same approach as the decrypted one, a couple of idle thoughts:

I wonder if anyone has tried the same text but with positive/negative word index offsets?

It would presumably be hard to extract a plaintext unless they are based on different texts that have a canonical form. Many books differ slightly between printinga due to errors and/or corrections.



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