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Channel sounding techniques and\/or telemetry systems for reporting channel conditions, coupled with superior wiretap code design are necessary to implement such secure systems. In this paper, we present recent results in best wiretap coset code design for the binary erasure wiretap channel. We define equivocation matrices, and showcase their properties and utility in constructing good, and even the best, wiretap codes. We outline the notion of equivalence for wiretap coset codes, and use it to reduce the search space in exhaustive searches for best small codes. Through example, we show that the best codes do not exist for some code sizes. 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