Though we have had some pretty good arguments, urr, "debates" over the the possible Caesar solutions to the Zodiac ciphers, Doranchak has agreed to let me post his new software, which he says that all can use for free. So thanks to Doranchak for that. And these are some excellent and very useful programs!
Doranchak: Here’s something I whipped up over the last few weeks:
http://oranchak.com/zodiac/webtoy/stats.html
You can use it to explore various statistical properties and patterns of an assortment of cipher texts. You can enter your own cipher texts as well.
It’s probably full of bugs right now since this is an early release. Please find them and let me know about them! Would also love to hear suggestions for improvements.
Documentation is a work in progress.
And be careful which Search buttons you click on towards the bottom – some of them take a few minutes to run. Smile
For best results, use Google Chrome, since CipherScope is very JavaScript-intensive, and Google Chrome has an extremely efficient JavaScript engine.
For worst results, use Internet Explorer. You can get by with it, though (I think I killed many of the IE-specific bugs already).
Quick update: I’ve finished the first cut of the documentation. Hopefully it isn’t too confusing.
http://wiki.zodiac-ciphers.dreamhosters … Scope_Help
I would love to hear any suggestions about how to improve the application.
AK Wilks: I asked Doranchak if he could add the Zodiac 340 Graysmith Raw/Bullitt/Obiwan/Kite/Wilks Proposed Solution to the available ciphers to be analysed, along with a way to expose Caesar shifts, and this was his reply.
Doranchak: Here’s a link that will put that text into CryptoScope:
If you want to expose the Caesar shift grid, the best way is to use the tool I posted here:
http://oranchak.com/zodiac/akwilks.html
You can put whatever message and text you’d like there, then click "Search", and it will show the Caesar shift grid if there’s a match. To force the grid to display, make sure the message can be matched (for instance, you can use any letter of the text as the message, and you’ll force a match).
AK Wilks: Special thanks to Doranchak for making his software available to us guys (and gals) on the "other side" of the cipher debate! Hopefully people will experiment with this and post any interesting results.
NIN: Yes, great program! I’ve been using it and it really cuts down time looking for stats and patterns. Had to get used to the 0-1-2 column…count 
Thank you Mr Oranchak, awesome work!! And nice to promote such great work, AK!
-Nin
Doranchak:
I’ve updated CryptoScope with a new version that has a boatload of new features.
Documentation for all the new features: http://oranchak.com/zodiac/webtoy/new_c … tures.html
New version of CryptoScope: http://oranchak.com/zodiac/webtoy/stats.html
Please note that the same caveats apply now like they did in my original post: http://www.zodiackillerfacts.com/forum/ … =11&t=1024. The main ones are: 1) CryptoScope kinda sucks in Internet Explorer; use a browser with a good javascript engine such as Google Chrome or Safari. 2) There may be bugs afoot. 3) See #2.
I welcome suggestions, comments, complaints, bug reports, and amusing anecdotes. And also of course the solution to the 340 once your flash of inspiration leads you to it!
AK WILKS: I am bumping this thread so new people can learn about doranchak’s great code solving programs posted above.
In particular, my favorite – no shock – is this one: http://oranchak.com/zodiac/akwilks.html
You can type in any suspect name or word to search for in any text and see if it is in there is Caesar shifted form.
And here is the original amazing Zodiac Webtoy CodeSolving Tool:
http://oranchak.com/zodiac/webtoy/index.html
This is the 340 using HERCEAN B I GIVE THEM HELL TOO SEE A NAME THESE FOOLSHALL SEE as a starting point, but NOT applying the rest of the Graysmith proposed solution, on the grounds that he may have gotten other parts wrong.
Does anyone see any potential word solves? Any ideas?
On the 9th line could the first four be MAIL and the last four be LOOK?
PATINKY: AK, did you say somewhere on this board that you suspect that not only substitution code but also anagrams and misspellings might occur in Zodiac’s ciphers? TIA
AK WILKS: Yes IMO misspellings for sure and some mild tight anagrams possibly. Why? What do you see?
PATINKY: Just wondering if the first line, which begins as Herc, could be an anagram and intentional misspelling (or natural for that matter) of Cheri. Such as "Chere and I give them big trouble…."
I am going to spend some time with Doranchak’s Zodiac cipher app. I played with it for a few minutes a while ago and I am totally impressed.
Being old and retired does have some perks.
AK WILKS: That’s interesting. Never thought of that. If the first four letters are HERC, those are also four of the letters in the name CHERI.
Sure it could be ‘gev hem cheri bate in hell too’. But that kind of wide and extreme anagram use is impossible to prove or disprove and one of dozens or hundreds of possible anagrams. As such I now tend to steer away from them. More interesting to me is the end of line seven BLLEI. There with just one shift of the letter E to put it to the right of the letter B and what do you have but none other than BELLI. That is a mild tight anagram and thus better but even there its hard to say. Try to stay away from too many anagrams. I do think that end of the 9th line could be LOOK.
DANIEL GILLOTTI: Thank you for all of your hard work Dave…I personally think your “Zodiac Web Toy” is Brilliant… reasons that are too long to explain this early… I have sleepy eyes so everything is a little fuzzy.
I personally use many other programs… my fav is the same one Trave uses and the one Dave actually introduce to us a while back. Crypto tool, something, Trave or Dave please post a link if you can.
Ak, if you post some of the plain text that you think is important, other then the 18 characters from the 408. I will use a different shift then the 0369 that I believe is just as important.
DORANCHAK: Thanks for the nice comments. I’m glad folks are still finding the tools useful. I will try to continue to improve them.
I personally use many other programs… my fav is the same one Trave uses and the one Dave actually introduce to us a while back. Crypto tool, something, Trave or Dave please post a link if you can.
Daniel, are you referring to CryptoScope, my more recent enhancements to the webtoy’s analysis tools?
http://oranchak.com/zodiac/webtoy/stats.html
Or zkdecrypto, a program that can automatically solve homophonic ciphers?
http://code.google.com/p/zkdecrypto/
Or perhaps CrypTool:
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