The National Cryptologic Museum has been closed due to the pandemic, so they’ve been doing a series of online educational events.
They invited me to give a lecture about the Zodiac ciphers. Check it out in my latest episode of Let’s Crack Zodiac:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY1Y5xyKcBw
Topics include Zodiac’s crimes, letters, postcards, ciphers, mysterious symbols, and copycat ciphers.
Wonderful lecture and thank you for mentioning my project. Q&A section has good questions and observations.
There is a cipher at the end.
Excellent work, yet again! I’m sure I’ve said it before, but your content is the best available and by far.
For anyone interested, here’s a transcription of the cipher at the end:
ueiekv cfcz gqjhzca ehd mtnd rqgc qa nrr niehd nuk qd kecaud xnddcz cplrezc dtc mezrk ucnzrv cfczvdtquj qa zcnrrv qudczcadquj qg veh je qude qd kcclrv cuehjt zqwtnzk l gcvuxnu
projectzenith.net solves it fairly consistently with 10 epochs (remember to inject spaces). I love the choice of author and the plaintext on that. Very good taste.
solves in a few seconds with AZDecrypt as well
NOBODY EVER FIGURES OUT WHAT LIFE IS
ALL ABOUT AND IT DOESNT MATTER EXPLORE
THE WORLD NEARLY EVERYTHING IS REALLY
INTERESTING IF YOU GO IN TO IT DEEPLY
ENOUGH RICHARD P FEYNMAN
Wonderful lecture and thank you for mentioning my project. Q&A section has good questions and observations.
Thanks Jarlve! More people need to know about AZdecrypt, because it is so extremely useful and powerful.
I hope to show more of it in Episode 5 when I go over codebreaking software.
Excellent work, yet again! I’m sure I’ve said it before, but your content is the best available and by far.
For anyone interested, here’s a transcription of the cipher at the end:
ueiekv cfcz gqjhzca ehd mtnd rqgc qa nrr niehd nuk qd kecaud xnddcz cplrezc dtc mezrk ucnzrv cfczvdtquj qa zcnrrv qudczcadquj qg veh je qude qd kcclrv cuehjt zqwtnzk l gcvuxnu
projectzenith.net solves it fairly consistently with 10 epochs (remember to inject spaces). I love the choice of author and the plaintext on that. Very good taste.
Thanks! Congrats on the solve. Not many people are willing to crack those little easter eggs.
Thanks for the new episode! I haven’t had the time to watch it completely yet, but I’ll do that very soon. Your video series is the most accurate and complete source of information on Zodiac ciphers available.
I am already looking forward to the episode "How z340 was finally solved".
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