An interesting idea. The metric would seem to have value when the plaintext is close to legible words. But does it provide any gradient in the right…
Talking of crosswords The prevalence of the ‘+’ has had me wondering if it was possibly a blacked out square in a crossword. Never made much progre…
I don’t see any reason to believe the transformed cryptogram is more likely to be a homophonic cipher than the original.
Much more decoding to do If there is "much more decoding to do", how would you know you’ve "solved the key", whatever that means?
I think this is the best answer to "where are we at"?
I’m playing around with this idea a little. I wrote a little program that does an exhaustive search for words that can be formed in this way from the…
2. Do people find it interesting that two serial killers, the Zodiac and the Unabomber, both left symbols, consisting of crossed lines inside circles…
Huh. It does seem remarkable. I wonder if as a test of significance, if you viewed the arrangement as having "periodic boundary conditions"…
Dunno? ‘Fk’ certainly has its place in the annuls of ‘things’. viewtopic.php?f=72&t=58 "I’m crackproof"? That is pretty striking.
Not sure if this has been discussed, but why do you all think he wrote the ciphers? Did he write them intending for them to be solved? Surely, he di…
That fold image analysis is awesome. Is that new?
Nice research and write-up. Given that for the "little list" he says "staring with the woman and her baby", could CJ be "Cat…
I’m interested. github is a good choice.
Very nice job! Lots of murmurs in the crowd, that’s a great sign your talk is a hit.
Great. Will be interested to hear the talk!