QT- What I said (quoting myself) was: One could look at the letter frequencies of various random posts here on this board to see that. That’s pretty …
I really don’t get QT’s point about letter frequency either. When you study a huge text corpus, the letter frequency will generally tend to approac…
So, I happened across this info-graphic / animation on the cipher solution. It’s pretty well done, overall.
Dave, yep, that’s right. But I really meant "another totally different message" in the 340 specifically. With the plaintext being 340 char…
The fact that the first one was solved almost instantly, the second one took 50 years and technology that didn’t exist at the time, suggests to me he …
Big list of possibilities here:
Paul_Averly- It is not the point of this thread to give a precise, detailed explanation of Zodiac’s exact methodology. That would be for another top…
Before this thread gets out of hand, people should be aware that what was used was a form of "route cipher" (one-down, two-to-right) that ju…
You also have to add to the fact that if certain individuals hadn’t been present such as Alan Turing as well as others then the process would have tak…
For what’s its worth, my opinion is that he did intend to make it harder, but not five-decades-later harder. The contemporaneous reference to the Dun…
BDHOLLAND- What you have described is the very messy process the team went through to obtain the solution. Solving ANY cipher is ALWAYS a tricky pro…
There is not universal agreement – AT ALL – that he intended to "fool LE and everyone else for over half a century." I can’t read his mind,…
To put this another way. If anyone wishes to verify the solution for themselves, they can: 1) Take the 340 cipher (on a computer, or on paper) 2) Pe…
The point I’ve been trying to make here is that there was no "manipulation" at all. Not a single symbol was added, nor subtracted. Spellin…