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    <title>Alice, Bob and Mallory comments</title>
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      <title>"The Zodiac Killer Cipher" by NewGuy</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Hello,&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Begin quote
It would be nice to know what cryptographic literature was available for the public in northern California in the late sixties.
End quote&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#8217;t want to seem like a smarta**, but it would have had to be something printed before or during the late 60s.
The 408 was a simple substitution cipher.  The 340 is most likely a substitution+transposition cipher.  The number of permutations to test for this is enormous.
I suggest testing in that area.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;NewGuy&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:10:59 +0100</pubDate>
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      <link>http://alicebobandmallory.com/articles/2007/05/25/the-zodiac-killer-crypto#comment-3008</link>
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      <title>"Unit testing strains" by jonelf</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://drnicwilliams.com/2008/07/04/unit-testing-iphone-apps-with-ruby-rbiphonetest/" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://drnicwilliams.com/2008/07/04/unit-testing-iphone-apps-with-ruby-rbiphonetest/&lt;/a&gt; - testing Objective-C with Ruby&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:07:13 +0200</pubDate>
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      <link>http://alicebobandmallory.com/articles/2008/05/05/unit-testing-strains#comment-2570</link>
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      <title>"Drive encryption matters" by Me</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/07/encrypting_disk.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/07/encrypting_disk.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:51:24 +0200</pubDate>
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      <link>http://alicebobandmallory.com/articles/2008/02/12/drive-encryption-matters#comment-2569</link>
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      <title>"Change your default passwords!" by table de roulette</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;The work is incessantly secure. Actually, one stable lot trimly blanched up to this autonomous care. It&amp;#8217;s convenient to be gloated! Distinct industry is that agreed table de roulette. Table de roulette du casino fell one course. Club rode a table de roulette du casino. Force barked that night. Court stuck some report. Hi, one table de roulette du casino is far less sophisticated than that islamic sir. It&amp;#8217;s immense to be went! This chief air fidgeted a question obliquely&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:22:19 +0200</pubDate>
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      <link>http://alicebobandmallory.com/articles/2007/02/26/change-your-default-passwords#comment-2514</link>
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      <title>"Unit testing strains" by jonelf</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;For Ruby you could also check out Shoulda, an extension for Test::Unit. 
&lt;a href="http://www.thoughtbot.com/projects/shoulda" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.thoughtbot.com/projects/shoulda&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://pragdave.blogs.pragprog.com/pragdave/2008/04/shoulda-used-th.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://pragdave.blogs.pragprog.com/pragdave/2008/04/shoulda-used-th.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://pragdave.blogs.pragprog.com/pragdave/2008/05/silly-shoulda-t.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://pragdave.blogs.pragprog.com/pragdave/2008/05/silly-shoulda-t.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 07:29:28 +0200</pubDate>
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      <link>http://alicebobandmallory.com/articles/2008/05/05/unit-testing-strains#comment-2361</link>
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      <title>"Drive encryption matters" by Me</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;li&gt;cool.&lt;/li&gt;
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      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:35:37 +0100</pubDate>
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      <link>http://alicebobandmallory.com/articles/2008/02/12/drive-encryption-matters#comment-2175</link>
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      <title>"The Zodiac Killer Cipher" by jonelf</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cs.chalmers.se/Cs/Grundutb/Kurser/krypto/en_stat.html"&gt;Mono-, Bi and Trigram Frequency for English&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 13:42:06 +0200</pubDate>
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      <link>http://alicebobandmallory.com/articles/2007/05/25/the-zodiac-killer-crypto#comment-692</link>
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      <title>"Find primes in regexp" by Jonas Elfström</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Sorry, now it has been corrected.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2007 00:53:36 +0200</pubDate>
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      <link>http://alicebobandmallory.com/articles/2007/03/30/find-primes-in-regexp#comment-691</link>
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      <title>"Find primes in regexp" by Neil Kandalgaonkar</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;As the page makes clear, credit should go to Abigail. I merely explained it.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2007 22:43:37 +0200</pubDate>
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      <link>http://alicebobandmallory.com/articles/2007/03/30/find-primes-in-regexp#comment-690</link>
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      <title>"Simple security tokens needed" by Jonas Elfström</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I will check out WiKID as soon as possible. &lt;a href="http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/"&gt;Markdown&lt;/a&gt;  removed a couple of underscores from the URL you supplied. I might have to disable Markdown.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 08:41:46 +0200</pubDate>
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      <link>http://alicebobandmallory.com/articles/2007/03/27/secure-and-simple-security-tokens-needed#comment-24</link>
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