Hexagrammaton by Hanuš Seiner
My rating: 2/5 cats
My thoughts swirled and flickered not unlike the symbols of the virus that had flown through my palm moments ago. The government cryptologists claimed that human knowledge of Vaían ciphers wasn’t sufficient to find the hexagrammaton. The Vaían alphabet consisted of one hundred and thirteen symbols, enabling two and a half billion six-letter combinations. But only millions of them translated some sequences of the virus into executable programs. Without knowing the engines’ functions, there was no criterion upon which to choose from the combinations.
i’m not even going to pretend i’m going to return to review this “someday.” i am too dumb. but you are smart.
read it for yourself here:
https://www.tor.com/2017/05/10/hexagr…
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