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Re: Z340 Kasiski Examination

Z408 has a significant Kasiski peak at width 61. Here’s a visualization of the doubles that show up when writing the cipher at that width:

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Re: Z340 Kasiski Examination

Here is the breakdown of common divisors found within the widths that produced sigmas greater than or equal to one. The first number is the divisor, …

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Re: Z340 Kasiski Examination

Here are the sigma plots for Z408: Widths 2-68: Widths 68-136: Widths 136-204: All widths: Here are the best widths, sorted by sigma, having a s…

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Re: Z340 Kasiski Examination

So as expected out columns 1 to 4 are slightly out but out 5 and 6 are pretty close. I am using a 32bit C float is your float 64bit? if so this may ac…

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Re: Z340 Kasiski Examination

I implemented a normalization step for BartW’s columnar IoC test. Let’s look at width 78. We write Z340 into 78 columns, which results in 5 rows that…

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Re: Z340 Kasiski Examination

Note that the last two are very close. Here are the columnar strings I generated to compute IoC: column 1: H^Lp%*:Gz73KzF/lk#;VGO+M26UOy5B…

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Re: Z340 Kasiski Examination

This evening I wrote a program to go through every column arrangement from 6 wide to 84 wide. it then calculated the IoC of each column and then when …

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Re: Are there any POI with American cryptogram association?

I am not aware of any POI associated with ACA, but I did find this page from Lyndon Lafferty’s book where he talks about ACA members Edward Steinke, H…

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Re: Z340 Kasiski Examination

The "voids" (regions lacking repeating bigrams) seem interesting to me. The seemingly diagonal void in the first image can be seen as a 2 c…

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Re: Xenophon Anthony

All credit to Sandy and Seagull. NOTE: The name of this kid should be Schiantarelli. I think this is the thread:

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Re: Z340 Kasiski Examination

As you can see there is a spike every 10 positions. However when i plotted the IoC by column width i got a surprise instead of the IoC dropping it pe…

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Re: Z340 Kasiski Examination

While I’m at it, here’s what the repeating bigrams look like at period 19: Writing the cipher to 19 columns makes them a little easier to spot: …

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Re: Z340 Kasiski Examination

Things line up better when you cast the cipher at width 26 (similar to what smokie did with his spreadsheets):

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Re: Z340 Kasiski Examination

David there is a wrap over which i think you are missing (Pair 19 @, 281,19) Ah – thanks for pointing it out. Here is another attempt to visualize w…

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