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Researchers decode 1950 cipher left as a posthumous test for life after death

A cipher created around 1950 by a researcher, built on a method devised by psychologist Robert Thouless, has reportedly been solved. Thouless had outlined the technique in a 1948 paper titled 'A Test of Survival,' which used an unbreakable-without-key cipher system, demonstrated with the phrase 'THERE IS NO DEATH' encrypted using Hamlet's 'To be or not to be' speech as the key.