Ok, I’ll bite. 🙂 ASACHALLENGEANDALSOTOTESTTHEABILITIESOFCIPHERSOLVINGALGORITHMSIHAVECREATEDTHISRATHERLONGANDDIFFICULTTESTCIPHERINAMANNERSIMILARTOBE…
I remember seeing a message thread on this exact subject a while ago. I think someone local to the Bay Area even went to one of the local libraries an…
There’s another few ways to increase the bigrams, Set the cipher in a 20 by 17 grid and reading SW-SE (diagonal) produces 38 bigrams and 35 mirrored….
Touché. 🙂 The encryption key indeed carries information as well (albeit hidden).
I would love to hear any theories of how it’s possible to encode 10-letter alphabet using 8 unique symbols. With the assumption that the length of the…
You guys are always coming up with new ideas, so I can never be sure if you are talking about the same thing as before, or if it’s already something c…
Just to clarify, what do you mean by "expanded"? Same idea as we had for wildcards? I.e. replace the symbol with a new unique one for each o…
This is actually not a bad idea, and a very valid method to try to solve "My Name Is" cipher. Look at the names of possible suspects to see …
The temperature range is optimized (not only by score) to a wide variety of ciphers (multiplicities). I usually run 1000 iterarions of 40 different ci…
Period 19 corresponds to this reading rule (as an example): – Start at top left of cipher (the "H"), and print the symbol there. – Go dow…
Awesome progress! And I finally understand what you mean by "iterations". I suspected it was the same as a random restart, but now I know. :…
Google the very first "word" in this cipher (bevqqfh), and you’ll find a whole blog of similar looking posts: My opinion? It’s just a rando…
Perhaps 2 sets of plaintext letters were considered (consonants/vowels for instance) and each were given a different key but with some/many of the sam…
I’m here. 🙂 I’m following everything you guys are doing. I’m just at a loss as far as what all this could mean. This odds/evens dichotomy is very pec…
Well, if you read a matrix by columns you’ll do the same for each column, if you wrap around the edges. This matrix appears to describe a regular colu…