Book 11. (1 results) Slave Girl of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 25 | 138 | "The View more quotes about security">security of this cipher," smiled Bosk, "lies not in itself, as a cipher, but rather, as is common, that it is not understood as a cipher. |
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Book 11. (7 results) Slave Girl of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 25 | 135 | "I think that it is," said Bosk, "from the ease with which Belisarius read the message. |
| 25 | 136 | Also I find it not implausible that it should be a simple substitution cipher because of the simplicity and convenience of such a cipher". |
| 25 | 137 | "Is it as secure?" asked Samos. |
| 25 | 138 | "The security of this cipher," smiled Bosk, "lies not in itself, as a cipher, but rather, as is common, that it is not understood as a cipher. |
| 25 | 139 | It is not, for example, a strange message written upon a scrap of paper, calling attention to itself as a secret communication, challenging the curious to its unraveling, but apparently only an innocent necklace, beaded with wood, common, vulgar and cheap, fit only for the throat of a lowly female slave". |
| 25 | 140 | Samos lifted the necklace. |
| 25 | 141 | I did not know what secret it contained. |
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"I think that it is," said Bosk, "from the ease with which Belisarius read the message.
Also I find it not implausible that it should be a simple substitution cipher because of the simplicity and convenience of such a cipher".
"Is it as secure?" asked Samos.
"The security of this cipher," smiled Bosk, "lies not in itself, as a cipher, but rather, as is common, that it is not understood as a cipher.
It is not, for example, a strange message written upon a scrap of paper, calling attention to itself as a secret communication, challenging the curious to its unraveling, but apparently only an innocent necklace, beaded with wood, common, vulgar and cheap, fit only for the throat of a lowly female slave".
Samos lifted the necklace.
I did not know what secret it contained.
- (Slave Girl of Gor)