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make them out. A piece of advice about education, enciphered in a
Caesar substitution, dated Kensington, was followed a week later by a
cleartext advertisement addressed to Kensington, saying, Your cipher is
made out; but such good maxims should be written in plain English, that
all might benefit. On February 10, 1852, The Times was used to circulate
calumny against itself—in cryptographic form, of course: TIG TJOHW IT TIG
JFHIIWOLA OG TIG PSGVW. It stood for The Times is the Jefferies of the
press, enciphered in a progressive Vigenere with key ABCD . . . beginning
anew with each word. The reference to George Jeffreys, a 17th-century
English judge, meant that The Times was a pusillanimous tool of the
government and mercilessly severe to its opponents. When the editor of
The Times heard about the cryptogram, he, like his queen, was not
amused. The family of the explorer Richard Collinson communicated
annaabi.ee 
