I have added it to my to do list to make a solver that can handle it.
Hey masootz,
I have added support for your scheme to a more general purpose solver I am working on for AZdecrypt 1.15. For example, it can be configured to replace symbols and optionally any amount of characters that follow it by a single new symbol. This way your rule – the difference between 2 characters – is more or less bypassed. Here is a result with 6-grams:
Score: 24226.42 IOC: 0.06370 Multiplicity: 0.36259 Repeats: 1411 PC-cycles: 57 Unit: symbol Mode: replace(3,1) Key(z,9,+) THEBESTWAYTOENCRY PTAMESSAGEBUTMAKN ITHARDERTODECRYPT ISTOMANKMISTAKESB UTALSANDDADDITION ALRULESTOFRUSTRAT ETHEKINDOFPEOPLEW HOWANTCORRECTTHOS EPEOPLETANYTIMETO MAKEPROGRAMSTOSOL VETHEMESSAGEBUTCA NNOTSALLTHEKINDTH EMODIACMANISHAPPY HUNTINGINTHISMESS AGMEIDENICECANBEF OUNDOUT
that’s incredible. good work jarlve!
i find this one has a high bi count
HJB+EDl8RO+|>++9p
FdcEW*X|/kGD7+VYc
Rtl<bZ^cX2VAU4PEl
.qZRzCY/T+.5|S<tF
BSOBGA-*<.*Y+RdMH
*85BKRFVf^Vz)F:+B
C9WMkR-fFFS6>Sk.p
-4y.LkO#|/c8(pl4G
|pRW17&VLLNHTKl+G
CB2y(pJ-t;fU>&jcO
.|2+1Od+ZBN42(K-D
#6:7MLc<*OMFzk+BF
2p(p+^#3)|5|T2+f<
UFN>ZP43G+4OWM+p(
K9CbqTzC%cpKb5+zJ
Ojpy+dT;_|W2N5zyY
B^B_(l|p#cG+O_c1%
)NzJBK++Mz@<8tLM)
*dD+59Wc;y(22+RlU
K)LU5P#V6Fz+BOH^^
Cipher challenge:
J)P07<N)_9[^(D7=2 _:J'L1OY%<^;S,R>A 62=P15/7V$^S3_7IJ N^Y"O>D.5,_^<)P41 7'_SRO=9?7LVJP_2Y [9+>BH1C[OL@W#"YR [IU[PF>BOGW"*R5"[ NR761"PR#&TFY"BSO 6)8/R5#WS_BM[F"76 >[#AWPOBX5D@VFWG9 -_%&QT$(GI,R!.2PT "I7AR;4"'68B.ASL/ G<.A5TE.RW]#B%?"@ GFA&8W.:DT_V;@'R- 6&%X7A0OGS8B.2Q,A ]0.#LN)0AI-0_52"/ Q^R]SHT.0A.^F0"I 5[LGI2NL1I-0@0IZ) *7SK0W52UM&L_806 30A!T.IQ00$NS2[00 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 2 8 9 10 11 12 13 5 14 15 8 16 1 17 18 19 20 21 22 6 11 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 15 14 3 19 30 31 5 32 33 11 24 34 8 5 35 1 7 11 21 36 20 27 13 37 30 25 8 11 6 2 3 38 19 5 17 8 24 26 20 14 9 39 5 18 32 1 3 8 15 21 10 9 40 27 41 42 19 43 10 20 18 44 45 46 36 21 26 10 35 47 10 3 48 27 41 20 49 45 36 50 26 30 36 10 7 26 5 29 19 36 3 26 46 51 52 48 21 36 41 24 20 29 2 53 31 26 30 46 45 24 8 41 54 10 48 36 5 29 27 10 46 28 45 3 20 41 55 30 13 44 32 48 45 49 9 56 8 22 51 57 52 33 12 49 35 25 26 58 37 15 3 52 36 35 5 28 26 23 38 36 17 29 53 41 37 28 24 18 31 49 6 37 28 30 52 59 37 26 45 60 46 41 22 39 36 44 49 48 28 51 53 45 37 16 13 52 8 32 23 44 17 26 56 29 51 22 55 5 28 4 20 49 24 53 41 37 15 57 25 28 60 4 37 46 18 7 2 4 28 35 56 4 8 30 15 36 31 61 57 11 26 60 24 42 52 37 4 28 37 11 48 4 36 35 30 10 18 49 35 15 7 18 19 35 56 4 44 4 35 62 2 50 5 24 63 4 45 30 15 47 61 54 51 18 8 53 4 29 34 4 28 58 52 37 35 57 4 4 33 7 24 15 10 4 4
Jarlve-
Although no-one has touched ZKDecrypto in years, I ran it on this cipher challenge, just as a test. And after a few runs, I kept finding the word (or something near) "VIOLENCE" in the plaintext. Is that correct? Is that word in there, or was that just a decoding mistake?
Not trying any transpositions, or any advanced approach, just looking at it as a normal homophonic. Simply asking so I do not waste my time…
-glurk
——————————–
I don’t believe in monsters.
Is there something significant about period 9?
The word "VIOLENCE" or any derivatives thereof do not appear in the plain text and there is more to this cipher than just homophonic substitution.
Nothing special about period 9.
Here’s another challenge, this time a regular homophonic:
!+KT-2VJ16-M?FI9! $1*5KFMJ9,^3X]>Q IID:6DAWL)J_?)./S NIJ(C?*-&Y4'EWH,- ]O)IJIJUH;.ZAI1C( ^?CSCY8@FBLK]LC$^ B]G!;WCZT!<79K*,V JX^L8]"A2K+Z#>,CK !#+,^@NL]LM-D$%[W C1,9B=I^21RD+3A: 18FJAL1IF01YU$F]/ VH;9,XQTZ$MOJ1Q%B G*;VW1MRXZB9:2CBK -#8T/!X"FI9;X#QZ$ WTH(;@!T>C7MT7GFB D?9RU;1PTJ&8]:C-A 16FVO9IX$+,A/F;M $9"7Q<7XH$*Z!#G;A DJQ7",TWBD;C(IL@1 ,#+KF#Z!3JQRLVEUF
Hey Jarlve ~
I am taking a break from cryptography and reading classical literature these days. I did make a matrix that would produce a lot of pivots in plaintext, it was a lot of L shapes, and was successful at that. Then I took the few messages with 4 pivots, and tried to encode them in various ways with 63 symbols, but was unsuccessful at producing a message with 2 pivots. So I took a break.
Geoff
