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“What are you doing?” asked Carter.
“There are thirteen lines, and each one is exactly thirteen letters,” he said, starting in on a second column.
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“That’s awfully symmetrical,” he went on, “which means we could be looking at a simplified columnar transposition cipher.”
“Yeah, sure,” Beck said. “I totally know what that is.”
Adi ignored him, adding a third line, then a fourth, continuing the painstaking process of writing down each letter, each line, each column, until they were staring at a block of text.
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