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beldenge
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Joined: January 6, 2017 12:15 am
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Re: Columnar transposition, hypothesis tested?

I can’t say how extensively it’s been tested, but I can say that it’s my current focus, and I’ll share a couple of my thoughts here. Right now I’m te…

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Re: Columnar transposition, hypothesis tested?

Gotcha, that make sense. I’ll see what I can conjure out of the ciphertext with that approach.

5 years ago
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Re: Columnar transposition, hypothesis tested?

Jarlve, Thank you again for taking the time to explain this to me. Just one last question — when you say bigram counts, are you referring to repeat…

5 years ago
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Re: Columnar transposition, hypothesis tested?

Jarlve, Thank you very much for your reply. I must admit I am still a little confused on a few things. First of all I am unclear what 1A, 1B, 2A, 2…

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Re: Columnar transposition, hypothesis tested?

Jarlve, Would you be able to explain how the bigram depth search works or point me to some information on that? I have recently been using bigram re…

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Re: Columnar transposition, hypothesis tested?

When I read your post I had to wonder if you were reading my mind. This has been precisely my hypothesis for several years. Only in the past couple …

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Re: Number of plausible keys for Z340

Until the z340 is solved we cannot assume that the upper limit is 26^63. We have a growing number of tools that can all successfully solve the z408 w…

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Re: Number of plausible keys for Z340

I suppose I technically fall into that category, at least since a few weeks ago. I released this project (free, open source, Java) which successfully…

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Re: Number of plausible keys for Z340

I would like to point out my observation on the magnitude of the search space. I’m sure others have a better idea of this than I do, but here goes. …

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Re: Bigram and Cycle Counts

My sincere thanks to you all. I knew this would be the right place to ask. I like the 2-symbol cycle score idea and will give that a try. You are r…

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Re: Cipher Solver Release — Project Zenith

It looks to me like it’s still there. It’s kind of far down in the feed now, but that’s more or less expected. Thanks for looking out in any case! …

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Re: Cipher Solver Release — Project Zenith

Largo, I really appreciate the complements! I’m still working on the genetic algorithm optimizer. It’s not able to escape the local optima yet, but …

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Re: Cipher Solver Release — Project Zenith

That’s a big complement coming from you Jarlve! It might be a first release, but it has been a pet project of mine for over two years, and I was expe…

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