[adzm]

Why is it always so difficult to find the details? What kind of cipher was it? How was the key derived from a password?

[JumpCrisscross]

> Why is it always so difficult to find the details?

"There’s a new podcast, 'Killer in the Code', from author Michael Connelly that details Baber’s supposed solution tying both cases to the same guy. All the publicity about this today stems from the debut of that podcast yesterday" [1].

[1] https://daringfireball.net

[pengaru]

Judging from TFA none of this was determined.

They (allegedly) matched the length of the encrypted name using a process of elimination from an AI-generated pool of possible names, arriving at one name that happened to match the name of Elizabeth Short's murderer, and then a bunch of other circumstantial details aligned.

[stogot]

In the article it also says the key to deicpher was Elizabeth and that the solution was approved by two cryptographers at the NSA

[pengaru]

Huh, apparently I didn't read the whole thing then.

[Enzime]

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/19p4n1aMyeYte1jC4P3G...