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by teeray 77 days ago
That feels like something that could suffer from frequency analysis.
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It's called a book cipher and it is definitely subject to various statistical attacks, especially if you have a list of almost all books.
You could probably do something to increase the apparent entropy like xoringing it with an irrational number like tao or pi starting with a digit determined by the date.