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daikon
daikon
@daikon
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Joined: July 3, 2015 4:04 am
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Re: Z340 has been solved!

BREAKING NEWS Last weekend, the 340 was solved and submitted to the FBI. … Wow, just wow. I truly believed it couldn’t be solved due to some convo…

4 years ago
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Re: Homophonic substitution

. If I was Zodiac, I would make one symbol polyalphabetic and use it to disrupt the homophonic cycles. I’ve ran a solver that picked 3 out of the to…

9 years ago
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Re: Cipher school in Vallejo????

There are a number of military bases in the Bay Aray, so it’s hard to say. A lot of them have closed now. There used to be a secret Naval Communicatio…

9 years ago
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Re: My work

Yeah, it seems we have a pretty international crowd here. I’m bilingual and a half, based in US at the moment.

9 years ago
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Re: Giving a talk at this year’s Cryptologic History Symposi

Yeah, I wish they would publish more unsolved codes for the world to work on. They tried to "crowd-source" for a solution to the Ricky McCo…

9 years ago
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Re: Giving a talk at this year’s Cryptologic History Symposi

(Regarding the other entries on the FBI’s top 10 unsolved codes list): "All of our top 10 unsolved codes are either active FBI investigations or…

9 years ago
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Re: My work

Message to the Zodiac, I found this cipher on or The funny thing is, it spells out a Russian swear word in the last line. Not in it’s neutral fo…

9 years ago
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Re: Z340 hypothesis: 2 letters per symbol

What the "letters" in the cipher look like have absolutely no difference to solving it. All we need to know is which symbols in the cipher a…

9 years ago
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Re: My work

Personally, I think 7-grams is about as high as you want to go. Yeah, I know that infamous quote: "640 Kb of memory is ought to be enough for any…

9 years ago
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Re: Giving a talk at this year’s Cryptologic History Symposi

I tried to encourage him to add the 340 to his list of projects but he’s reluctant because he doesn’t know the encipherment scheme. I think that make…

9 years ago
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Re: 320.alanb.example.txt

I’m not getting a good solution either. There are a lot high-scoring candidates, but none of them make any sense, and they all differ from one another…

9 years ago
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Re: Z340 hypothesis: 2 letters per symbol

Here you go daikon, the original message is 398 letters. Here’s what I got so far: DENNISFONGALSOKNOWNATHRESHOLDOFPAINISANAMERICANENTREPENEURANDRETIR…

9 years ago
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Re: Giving a talk at this year’s Cryptologic History Symposi

A cool thing today was being in the same panel with Dan Olson from the FBI. He gave an interesting talk about the history of the FBI’s codebreaking. …

9 years ago
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Re: Giving a talk at this year’s Cryptologic History Symposi

Awesome! Looking at the slides, you seem to have covered pretty much all of the interesting observations we’ve discussed here. Did you get any feedbac…

9 years ago
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Re: Z340 hypothesis: 2 letters per symbol

The full plaintext length for daikon6 is 508. To encode such ciphers, I just take the plaintext, make it all uppercase, then find the top N bigrams,…

9 years ago
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