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Re: Too many polyphones

What about adding polyphones into 340-like material, to see "how many are too many?" I am catching up on the older cipher threads here and …

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Re: Uncrackable Codes: The Zodiac Killer

An interesting read. It would be nice to see their source code, more specifically the CUDA portion; I have been tinkering with the idea of writing a s…

11 years ago
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Re: Pivots

By popular demand: >MDH|FkdNpkS++)WW <7tzZO8RcT+CzWzB_ YOA|K;+|c.3L16CPO SHB*-CcyBX1zBK(<+ FlT/()plGFN*:49Op ^.WB|)Lz69S^f52CE >VfMq…

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Re: Pivots

Here is a way to read the z340 in order to flatten the two 3-character pivots and the "square-IOF" pattern: The diagram breaks down the…

11 years ago
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Re: Grille Cipher: Applying the z340 on the z408

I suspect that the number of permutations of the above four quantities is still high enough to produce more than one interesting solution. It’d be a …

11 years ago
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Re: Hidden in plain sight

That’s about 5% of them. So, I suppose it’s not too uncommon. Thanks for calculating that. We’ll just pile this on top of the coincidence heap I supp…

11 years ago
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Re: Hidden in plain sight

3) There are 41 unique symbols, which greatly increases the difficulty of solving it… Good job in creating this so rapidly! Not too surprising that …

11 years ago
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Re: Hidden in plain sight

I’m skeptical about this approach You and me both , but I still find it interesting enough to share it.

11 years ago
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Re: Hidden in plain sight

You’re the second person to mention that in the last few days. Here’s Weir’s post on the halloween card ‘Envelope’ thread. Thanks Trav for pointing th…

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Re: Hidden in plain sight

Very amusing tool! From my original posts on this subject, I had found it peculiar that you could read "cipher" at the very top-left of the …

11 years ago
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Re: Victim name patterns

Very nice and clean demonstration! http://www.zodiackillerciphers.com/?p=408 Your post’s page ID is 408. What are the odds of that???

11 years ago
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Re: z340: Routes in Quadrants

Perhaps it’s possible to implement a faster hillclimber. The algorithm described in the paper "Efficient Cryptanalysis of Homophonic Substitutio…

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Re: z340: Routes in Quadrants

Thanks for the kind and encouraging words! Trying to find a solution to these ciphers sometimes feels like trying to extract the meaning of life from …

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Re: z340: Routes in Quadrants

I had hoped that some measurement of language-like features in a cipher text would help indicate which manipulations would unravel the cipher text int…

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