Normally I run it from Parallels Desktop, a virtualization program in which I have a Windows virtual machine. I just tried to run it via Wine ( https://www.winehq.org/ ) but it did not work, maybe because my version was out of date. I’m trying WineBottler now. (Update: No luck with WineBottler. It may just be that I haven’t set up the proper configuration of options yet.)

Okay thanks.

A new AZdecrypt update has been added to the main page.

What is new?

– Support for 4, 7 and 8-grams added
– Substitution + polyphones solver
– Create transposition matrix
– Bugfixes and stuff

The amount of polyphones/letters per symbol for the new substitution + polyphones solver have to be set through the symbols menu (under functions).

The new create transposition matrix (under functions) requires you to open a cipher with the dimensions you want to create a matrix in first. Then left mouse click on the button-grid to set a number one by one, it increments automatically. A right mouse click draws (when possible) a horizontal, vertical or diagonal line between the last number and your new position. Mr lowe, let me know if you have any suggestions, questions or problems.

Hi jarlvie.. cool update works well. the matrix is great just a tweek. not sure if I’m using it right.
the transposition matrix needs a back button so when a mistake is made you can delete your last entry. Also it does not show the statistics for bigram trigrams etc.
Oh and maybe a button that can highlight the pivots if required.
Cheers great work.

Thanks for your feedback Mr lowe. I will add an undo button.

It is not a visualization tool like Largo’s Peek-a-boo. It is just there to create a transposition matrix, which is a grid of numbers ranging from 1 to 340 for example. When made/filled, click on export to output window and go to transposition under the functions menu and select use transposition matrix and click on transpose or untranspose in that window. That will apply the matrix to your cipher in the input window, after that you can check bigrams with multigrams under the stats menu. I understand that you would like to see live statistics, need to think about it.

Hi Jarlve!

Thank you very much for the great update! To have a polyphone solver is very valuable. AZDecrypt is such a powerful tool. If z340 gets solved In the future I am sure it will be done by AZDecrypt.
Recently I continued my work on the z340. My current goal is to walk back some steps and get a new perspective. I hope I can contribute some new ideas soon.

Hi Jarlve!

Thank you very much for the great update! To have a polyphone solver is very valuable. AZDecrypt is such a powerful tool. If z340 gets solved In the future I am sure it will be done by AZDecrypt.
Recently I continued my work on the z340. My current goal is to walk back some steps and get a new perspective. I hope I can contribute some new ideas soon.

Nice to hear from you Largo and thank you for your compliments.

I started coding a vigenère solver a couple of days ago. It cracked glurk’s homophonic substitution + vigenère cipher within a few minutes.

Score: 19139.03 Ioc: 0.06957 Ioc: 0.04417
Vigenère key: LIZMKWD

ILIKEEATINGPEOPLE
BECAUSETHEYTASTES
OMUCHBETTERTHANTH
EWILDGAMEIKILLINT
HEFORESTBECAUSEMA
NISTHEMOSTTASTYAN
IMALOFALLTOKISLME
NGIVESMETHEMOSTTH
RILLINGEXPERIENCE
ITISEVENBETTERTHA
NSTEARSONAGRILLTH
EBESTPARTOFITISTH
ATWHENIEADIWILLAD
DMYCAUCEANDALLMYM
EATIHAVEKILLEDWIL
LBECOMEEVENTASDIE
RIWISLNOTGIVEYOUT
HENAMEOFMYSAUCEBE
CAUSEYOUWILLTRYTO
BUYITALLUPANDMAKE
MYMEALSLESSTASTYG

Hi Jarlve,

in the older versions of AZDecrypt (0.99) it was possible to batch-solve files 1.txt to n.txt. In the new version all the ciphers have to be in one big file (like shown in the batch example). Can you please implement something like
"solve all files inside folder xyz and put the results into folder abc"? That would be great!

Sorry, but I have found a bug: "Functions->Transposition->Period" seems to be broken. Worked fine in 1.0b. Same for diagonal transpose/untranspose.

Hi Jarlve,

in the older versions of AZDecrypt (0.99) it was possible to batch-solve files 1.txt to n.txt. In the new version all the ciphers have to be in one big file (like shown in the batch example). Can you please implement something like "solve all files inside folder xyz and put the results into folder abc"? That would be great!

Okay, I will look into it.

Sorry, but I have found a bug: "Functions->Transposition->Period" seems to be broken. Worked fine in 1.0b. Same for diagonal transpose/untranspose.

Indeed, thanks for reporting!

A new AZdecrypt update (1.04) has been added to the main page.

What is new?

– Substitution + vigenère solver. Set a keyword length size in the solver menu under options.
– Substitution + vigenère wordlist solver. Will simply go through all words in a list and could double as a one time pad solver. Words in the list must use the same alphabet as defined in the ngram .ini file (case sensitive).
– Vigenère encoder. Under functions -> manipulation.
– Digraph subtitution encoder. Under functions -> manipulation.
– Added a few extra stats here and there such as odd/even bigrams. (thanks smokie)
– Added undo button to create transposition matrix.
– Easier to navigate menus with spacers.
– Bugfixes and many little things. (thanks again Largo)

The substitution + vigenère solver can solve 63 symbol 340 character homophonic substitution + vigenère ciphers with keywords up to a length of 10 (and probably much longer) without any problems but it may take a while. With homophonic substitution it is assumed that the vigenère is actual at the plaintext level. The solver is very much susceptible to nulls.

Excellent updates; nice job, Jarlve!

Jarlve, thanks a lot for all of the hard work on your solver.

You are welcome guys.