Another question for anyone out there. Has anyone ever tried to do this before? Has anyone ever tried to figure out a way that Zodiac could have maske…
Anyway, I’ve done my second masking exercise. It was very educational. […] 17 25 1 15 27 62 9 18 26 35 16 10 13 31 28 37 58 Cracked it! It’s a quo…
If I had to guess, and this is purely a guess at this point, but I would say Method #2, where you mask bigram repeats, will be harder to solve. Reason…
The question is, if I had only used a wildcard count necessary to get the bigram repeat list down to about count 46, would the message still have been…
I should probably hold my horses on the "prospective sister bigram cycle reconstruction" idea. There are just so many uncertainties. I thi…
I decided to take a break for a while. Everything is okay, just proctecting myself from overextension. May the doge be with you. Sorry to hear! Don’…
I started with symbol 37 and kept working with that for a while until trying to mask a bigram was easy with 37. Then I switched to 49, then to 51, the…
I can’t even solve your "unwildcarded" cipher with AZdecrypt, it probably suffers from the same problem as daikon3 (word entropy, same words…
Here’s the plaintext with the wildcards/blanks. It is still mostly readable: PURPLEHAZEALLINMYBRAI_LATELYTHINGS_ONTSEEMTHESAMEACTINFUNNYBUTDONT_NO_WHY…
Check it out. Maybe you guys can solve it. ZKD got stalled up at about 30k for me, but you guys are a lot better at solving these things than I am. If…
5. On a separate piece of paper, he kept a list of the two newly created bigrams, a sequence of three numbers (e.g. 6 19 36). Each time he added a wil…
There’s allot of this stuff going in the center of the cipher, it really peaks there. I noticed that too. Just curious, did anyone try to search for…
I don’t know what to think of it but what comes to mind is this line in the old FBI documents: "Hand anagramming done with the message as written…
I have thought about a possible relation between vigenere and the pivots but does that makes any sense? Well spotted! However, any text of highly re…
Yes, first half is perfectly cyclic and second half is fully random (starting from character position 171). Well done! Since your system is able to de…