Here are my thought on why I think Zodiac’s 340 text probably is a "Red Herring": August 8th, 1969: On the night of August 8–9, 1969 four…
Using the 340 key on the Z13 could also produce: Dr. ELAIOLADO Which is Greek for "Olive Oil". Does "Dr. Olive Oil" mean anythi…
Great video Dave! I knew the gist of the Graysmith story but enjoyed learning the details of the timeline of how his solve came to exist. I knew it w…
Very impressive! I’ve gotten it to run locally. Initial impressions: – I like the interface a lot – Realtime transformation interface looks especial…
You guys are doing some really amazing work jarlve and beijinghouse! If possible could you please share the high-level details of how the entropy-bas…
I don’t believe Nick’s second challenge cipher is vulnerable to simply throwing it in AZdecrypt and blindly running an 8-gram model against it. It is …
Very intriguing work _pi Sentence 1 and 2 are very compelling, both for their clarity and their self-referential nature to the cipher! I also like th…
Awesome work! I really need to upgrade my machines to have more RAM. Just to clarify, my new v4 8-gram file only needs 14.35GB of memory to load. …
What kind of incorrect letters do you mean? Misspellings? Or mismatches between the derived key and the actual key? Thanks for the word breakdowns….
While it’s certainly not necessary to understand how the new 8-gram solver works to use it, he’s a few details on how I designed it. Hopefully this pa…
Great work Jarlve! Thanks for incorporating the speedups I found into the main code so quickly. Excited to see what everyone here can do with the ne…
This board has lots of great ideas, but I agree it can feel pretty abrasive too — especially when sharing new ideas. I feel belittled and attacked by…
There is no special tuning to any known cipher plaintexts. There’s only an implicit tuning to the 408 because I augment the ngrams with all of Zodiac’…