If we interpret the Z32 as a code rather than a cipher, then I want to make a couple observations that I think may be relevant to the solution. On th…
I think any solution needs to explain the symmetry of those 3 circled 8’s and needs to use as few assumptions as possible. I posted this on Reddit a c…
The message suggests at least mildly that Zodiac expected the 340 to be solved within a few weeks or months. He likely did not have a good handle on h…
Congratulations to everyone who’s worked so hard on this! I’ve followed you guys for years and I’m blown away by your diligence, ingenuity, and keen e…
Hi guys! It’s been a while since I’ve logged on! I was blown away by the news about the 340. Congratulations to all of you who’ve worked so hard on th…
Absolutely agree, doranchak. To summarize my last post more succinctly and perhaps more clearly, I feel that _pi’s simulation tests the hypothesis t…
_pi, your simulation’s results sounds reasonable. Like you, though I forgot to explicitly clarify, I left out all Greek characters (except for the sym…
Do you reject a particular premise? Because each premise has a well-established mathematical foundation (namely the fields of statistics and probabili…
As I thought may be the case, the initial results (Thu May 21, 2015 3:15 pm) were off by a constant factor. I corrected the mistake in the code, then …
There’s a 1/20 probability that any given plaintext letter has a mean distance below its associated confidence interval. As such, there’s a (1/20)^N c…
morf13, that’s not off topic at all; that’s an interesting detail I hadn’t heard before now. If you look at AK Wilks’ initial post, zodiacrevisited al…
If even just one of the "simulations" mirrors the 408’s keyboard adjacency, the usefulness of this discovery evaporates. Probably before the…
As the metric of success, I simply chose to count the number of plaintext letters which are highly keyboard-adjacent (to adopt your terminology); more…
In response to doranchak’s suggestion, I programmed a simple simulation. Each run of the simulation randomly generates a key with a similar distribut…