I'm glad to share possibly the first automatic decipherment of the second W.B.Tyler cipher.
http://www.davidmeyercreations.com/mysteries-of-history/the-edgar-allan-poe-code/ wrote:In July 2000, the contest came to an end when Gil Bronza submitted the correct answer. It turned out that the cipher was a poly-alphabetic substitution cipher and contained “over two dozen mistakes.” And what was the answer to this masterful, albeit flawed puzzle?
“It was early spring, warm and sultry glowed the afternoon. The very breezes seemed to share the delicious langour of universal nature, are laden the various and mingled perfumes of the rose and the –essaerne (?), the woodbine and its wildflower. They slowly wafted their fragrant offering to the open window where sat the lovers. The ardent sun shoot fell upon her blushing face and its gentle beauty was more like the creation of romance or the fair inspiration of a dream than the actual reality on earth. Tenderly her lover gazed upon her as the clusterous ringlets were edged (?) by amorous and sportive zephyrs and when he perceived (?) the rude intrusion of the sunlight he sprang to draw the curtain but softly she stayed him. ‘No, no, dear Charles,’ she softly said, ‘much rather you’ld I have a little sun than no air at all.'”
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Score: 16250 Ioc: 696 M: 206 C: 668 S: 138
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57 13 12 33 45 73 44 26 40 20 36 46 75 30 133 15 82 24 17 31
23 4 70 14 58 95 83 69 80 27 6 10 39 52 107 54 110 8 104 21
67 94 18 53 120 11 29 74 72 63 68 3 40 4 43 48 71 16 30 106
121 108 91 98 72 50 49 41 22 32 99 105 77 46 28 45 42 38 6 24
2 27 1 9 5 81 65 76 47 56 79 10 73 57 12 10 35 135 92 85
6 17 26 55 95 113 67 36 22 7 84 25 14 20 36 8 29 110 21 82
31 103 105 18 94 72 51 100 89 53 39 42 63 11 93 83 16 44 59 8
130 21 33 50 1 8 2 22 24 23 96 4 64 91 102 12 106 62 128 71
37 5 7 69 55 33 75 38 66 29 31 49 98 109 56 54 15 101 85 52
80 9 99 64 15 34 75 81 1 19 18 16 28 82 30 60 41 31 77 23
32 78 57 35 43 84 28 86 53 2 55 13 20 65 58 69 80 56 42 125
11 14 134 25 83 12 72 109 64 68 71 46 90 51 17 87 100 89 53 3
42 6 24 26 27 15 9 24 3 70 7 4 83 117 4 111 22 63 59 97
42 43 28 61 58 66 76 119 62 5 48 10 39 122 9 111 50 96 121 35
32 31 41 112 85 1 13 29 62 44 51 20 90 14 15 73 8 107 18 37
61 23 34 88 79 27 123 46 54 21 36 38 90 30 19 92 114 47 40 11
17 74 60 1 97 86 33 25 137 10 52 55 28 16 2 99 120 46 13 116
131 95 1 43 59 11 28 3 25 78 34 2 83 67 118 62 47 41 65 38
91 35 58 31 7 12 26 71 37 84 117 96 1 5 87 101 17 81 108 100
45 79 49 70 24 57 9 60 44 88 97 86 4 17 39 74 89 15 43 13
7 56 54 73 52 82 85 88 3 49 6 30 78 32 3 104 8 29 113 110
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26 55 22 32 66 24 19 50 75 93 70 4 4 7 6 56 16 106 34 1
105 46 39 95 76 51 57 13 12 33 119 72 40 44 25 6 114 136 10 125
129 40 54 27 3 22 7 64 82 8 124 48 21 118 18 77 138 30 84 87
53 29 69 68 10 78 111 16 11 62 5 15 2 61 67 38 98 35 58 31
23 96 4 94 45 13 49 60 20 92 19 48 21 63 115 47 37 14 32 74
99 12 26 81 75 44 59 8 116 113 70 65 28 68 45 122 103 87 50 19
93 20 11 22 100 9 52 51 15 41 34 61 7 80 25 127 124 126 5 91
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