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Re: I know what he (maybe) did with the 340!

I’ve been thinking about that problem, too, especially when considering Google’s humungous n-gram datasets Using word N-grams would be awesome, but a…

10 years ago
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Re: I know what he (maybe) did with the 340!

About columnar transposition (for a 17×20 grid). I’ve done some work on this. I don’t think it’s actual after homophonic encoding … Wait, why would…

10 years ago
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Re: 2015 cipher challenge

The OP says "I don’t know if this will be easy or hard. May take 2 hours, 2 days, 2 weeks?" He is apparently unaware of the programs that ar…

10 years ago
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Re: Schemes 340

Just had an idea. Is it possible that Z did something different with bifid, such as writing out Polybius square coordinates for plaintext letters in h…

10 years ago
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Re: Schemes 340

I’ve looked at bigrams at a distance for the 340 and found some unusual peaks (for my system) at distances of 15, 19 and 29. Are you talking about th…

10 years ago
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Re: I know what he (maybe) did with the 340!

I just used a 2-dimensional array. Array(count_of_ngrams,9), the second dimension are the 10 numbers which make up the n-gram. Order them alphabetical…

10 years ago
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Re: Popular cryptography books in the ’60s?

Trying to figure out which book Z might have been familiar with is probably a dead end after all. I was just thinking there could’ve been a popular fa…

10 years ago
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Re: Schemes 340

the practical cryptography analyzer listed 6×6 bifid highly when looking at the 340. i don’t think zodiac was an expert cryptographer. i think it’s mo…

10 years ago
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Re: I know what he (maybe) did with the 340!

I have experimented with the range of 3 to 10-grams (at the same time). It’s not highly unpractical when just trying to solve one cipher, I used a 2-d…

10 years ago
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Re: I know what he (maybe) did with the 340!

In my own cynical opinion, many of these papers were written more as a goal of obtaining a degree by writing a thesis than actually making an effort a…

10 years ago
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Re: I know what he (maybe) did with the 340!

I know this is not exactly within the topic of this thread, but I can’t resist to share this. So I started reading different scientific papers that at…

10 years ago
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Re: I know what he (maybe) did with the 340!

Ah, right, I saw that table, but didn’t make the connection to Kevin Knight. I was hoping for a more formal paper, but I guess there isn’t much there …

10 years ago
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Re: Post Sentence Fragments You’ve Seen On ZKDecrypto

I’ll post my "find", which nearly made me fall out of my chair when I saw it 🙂 …HISLORDTHINGTHEEFORMPEOPLETODAY… It was near the top, …

10 years ago
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Re: I know what he (maybe) did with the 340!

I have been thinking this may be in favor of my word search theory (not the graysmith) because there would still be some information to be found horiz…

10 years ago
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Re: CIPHER STRUCTURE

You should read Nick Pellings idea’s for the 340 in this article:

10 years ago
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