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Re: Z340 Kasiski Examination

What I have for symbol 53, the half filled circle, left half is filled. Um, that’s what everyone else has as far as I know. But they do not all look a…

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Re: Z340 Kasiski Examination

Here’s an idea. Let X represent the shift value used for Kasiski examinations. Let Y represent the period used for counting repeated bigrams. Then …

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Re: Z340 Kasiski Examination

Of the 35 positions involved with the period 78 unigram repeats, 19 of them are also involved with the period 39 bigram repeats. All of the above, ass…

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Re: Z340 Kasiski Examination

By doing the same on Z340 a Spike was noted at a shift of 78 and a slight above average at 39 (78/2) with no noticeable harmonic at 156 (2*78). What d…

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Re: Z340 Kasiski Examination

Curiously, Z408 has a spike at shift 49 and the number of repeats is the same: 18. Running the same shuffle test, 22,038 of the shuffles (2.2%) had a…

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Re: Z340 Kasiski Examination

I’m starting at the basics, so I did a shuffle test of the Kasiski exam spike at shift of 78. In my tests, the number of repeats (coincidences) peaks…

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Re: Z340 Kasiski Examination

Also, this period calculator is another way to look at the periodic bigram phenomenon:

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Re: Z340 Kasiski Examination

Been casually reading this thread but haven’t had a chance to dive into the full details. Interesting stuff though! I hope to help with the analysis…

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Re: My work

I am sorry to hear you are leaving – I hope your absence is not permanent! Be well, and I hope our paths will cross again.

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Re: Homophonic substitution

Interesting – can you describe how the algorithm works?

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