Elgar, the Enigma Machine and Variations

[drogulus]

     Breaking Elgar's Enigma

One year before he began composing the Enigma Variations, he sent his friend Dora Penny a coded letter of 87 squiggly Arabesques. Dubbed the Dorabella Cipher, it remains one of cryptography's most famous and elusive codes, which has attracted its own underground community of codebreakers.

     

[Brian]

I've always thought the solution was so obvious that I haven't entertained any other theory in almost a decade.

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