– What is it about the Zodiac cyphers that make them so hard to solve?
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2 of the 3 believed authentic Zodiac messages were cracked. The first one was cracked pretty quickly while it took decades to crack the second one. One thing that made the second one so hard to crack was that it didn’t follow it’s own rules strictly. This meant that even if you had the right key it wouldn’t fully decrypt the message. This required a ton of work to kinda decrypt it in steps, teasing out the real message.
The third one is believed to be uncrackable due to how small it is. There just isn’t enough information to find any patters. There’s also a good chance the third message is just gibberish so there’s nothing to actually decrypt.
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