More than a Zodiac specialist, I am an experienced programmer, very dedicated to a language named Python.
It is really the cipher attack I am about BUT still curious about the fascinating story.
The tenacity of the three people who overcame this monster (the cipher) impresses me a lot.
I have spent quite some time studying cryptos over the last decade. Reading about Turing, Rejewski etc… I read (but not understood all !) several university research work all aimed more or less at the Z340… and all failing !
I also have very occasionally coded encrypting/decrypting software for work (and may again)…

On my spare time…
1) I could not resist building a successful attack via dictionary on substitution ciphers (not very difficult) a few years ago
2) I tried a quite naive attack on homophones that completely failed more recently.
3) I am now trying a new very classical approach.

Enough of speaking about myself even if this is the place…

Besides, I live near Paris, France (an am French hence the subject)

regards