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daikon
daikon
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Re: Daniel’s "cipher work"

The word search idea is very interesting. We know of at least one other letter-writing, authority-taunting serial killer who made a word search: Ye…

9 years ago
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Re: Homophonic substitution

– Some of the medium-high count symbols do not seem to cycle well, are these possibly wildcards/polyalphabetic or 1:1 substitutes? (smokie treats) B…

9 years ago
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Re: Homophonic substitution

Another thing that makes the first and last columns special is the possible "fold line" appearing on row 10 as hyphens in those columns. I …

9 years ago
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Re: Homophonic substitution

We have at least two simple ways to make more ngrams appear: 1) flip the 340 horizontally; You mean mirror it? Hmm, interesting. I did the same to…

9 years ago
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Re: Things I noticed about Z340

Hmm, something else I just noticed that might fit the theory of odd symbols being nulls. Looking at Z13 cipher: If we split it into odds and even…

9 years ago
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Re: Things I noticed about Z340

Some time ago I noted that one cipher in my collection came close to the 340 (via a measurement which may not relate as much to your observation).tony…

9 years ago
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Re: Things I noticed about Z340

Could lines 1,3,5,7,9etc be one code and 2,4,6,8 etc be another. Which would really mix it up. That’s a good idea. I just tried splitting Z340 into…

9 years ago
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Re: Things I noticed about Z340

That’s it for now. The other entries in my "log of unexplained oddities" are too insignificant/inconclusive to mention (i.e. can easily be a…

9 years ago
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Re: Things I noticed about Z340

Another observation I came across when doing various tests on Z340 has to do with a spike in the bigram IoC at the period of 19 (or step, or distance)…

9 years ago
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Re: Homophonic substitution

What about checking portions of the 340, saw five rows (or more) at a time, starting at the top. Find the total cycle score with whatever formula, and…

9 years ago
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Re: Homophonic substitution

That’s is very interesting. I will add that to my list of things to explore! In case you need a simple explanation of how to transpose the 2nd half…

9 years ago
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Re: Homophonic substitution

I’m going to focus on the interesting observations during my talk in October. Let me know what you’d want to see in the list! There will be a room f…

9 years ago
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Re: Homophonic substitution

I used to call it bigrams at a distance but daikon has been using the term period. It’s the distance between the first and the last symbol of the bigr…

9 years ago
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Re: Homophonic substitution

What do you mean by this? How do you increase the period to 3? It’s a standard test for bifid. Here’s a pretty good explanation (in the first part a…

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