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daikon
daikon
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Joined: July 3, 2015 4:04 am
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Re: Homophonic substitution

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…

10 years ago
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Re: Homophonic substitution

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…

10 years ago
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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…

10 years ago
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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…

10 years ago
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Re: Homophonic substitution

I should probably hold my horses on the "prospective sister bigram cycle reconstruction" idea. There are just so many uncertainties. I thi…

10 years ago
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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’…

10 years ago
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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…

10 years ago
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I can’t even solve your "unwildcarded" cipher with AZdecrypt, it probably suffers from the same problem as daikon3 (word entropy, same words…

10 years ago
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Here’s the plaintext with the wildcards/blanks. It is still mostly readable: PURPLEHAZEALLINMYBRAI_LATELYTHINGS_ONTSEEMTHESAMEACTINFUNNYBUTDONT_NO_WHY…

10 years ago
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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…

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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…

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Re: Daniel’s "cipher work"

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…

10 years ago
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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…

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Re: Daniel’s "cipher work"

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…

10 years ago
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Re: Homophonic substitution

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…

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