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chure printed in which he enciphered known texts in his Chaocipher
and defied the world to break it. Toward the close of his life, he wrote a
book of reminiscences. It told much about his days with Joyce, but his
real reason for writing it was not to shed light on early Joyce but to get
his Chaocipher before a larger audience. The 21st and last chapter of
Silent Years: An Autobiography with Memoirs of James Joyce and Our
Ireland, comprising fully one eighth of the book, recapitulated the story of
his Chaocipher. Byrne concluded by betting $5,000 or the total royalties
of the first three months after publication of his book that no one would
be able to solve the message in Chaocipher that he printed in extenso in
the final pages. He flung the challenge also at the amateurs of the
American Cryptogram Association and the New York Cipher Society and
at Norbert Wiener, father of cybernetics, and to other believers in the
capabilities of the electronic calculating machines.
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