Not sure whether this is a ligature problem or a hyphenation problem or both!
In the following MWE, the line breaks at the hyphen following "Diffe", but one
of the f's is lost so the PDF shows "Dife-".
Latest LMTX, version 2021.08.19 19:48
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Twenty years after receiving it as a Christmas present, I have finally got
around to reading The Code Book by Simon Singh. Written in 1999, when
E-commerce was still relatively new, the book provides accessible explanations
of the workings of Diffe-Hellman-Merkle key exchange, and Rivest, Shamir and
Adleman (RSA) public-key cryptography.
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Output PDF attached.
—
Bruce Horrocks
Hampshire, UK