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Jarlve
Jarlve
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Re: AZdecrypt 1.17

Hey Largo, That sucks. Thanks for looking into it! I can’t imagine the problem being "destroywindow" since that is a Windows function so i…

5 years ago
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Re: Higher-order homophonic cipher

Exploring those tradeoffs in the solution space might allow for solutions in edge cases to be found more effectively. I agree. For example, using ent…

5 years ago
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Re: Could this card be from a hoaxer?

I ran a test to calculate the odds of having "By", BY", "yB" or "YB" appear just once in every quadrant from random…

5 years ago
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Re: Could this card be from a hoaxer?

It’s regarding some instances of his ‘lowercase c’. The top of it has a small, angled stroke. It exists from the Riverside communications right throug…

5 years ago
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Re: Higher-order homophonic cipher

Thanks for the explanation, I like the concept of "fitness sharing", perhaps it could prove useful in other parts of my hill-climber.

5 years ago
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Re: Could this card be from a hoaxer?

What evidence is there to believe it is from the real Zodiac? I don’t know but it is in his style. I agree that it could be a hoax. Zodiac sourced a…

5 years ago
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Re: Higher-order homophonic cipher

These texts are funny. I’d love to hear a description of how that particular solver works. Instead of one decryption, multiple (n-order) decryption…

5 years ago
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Re: Higher-order homophonic cipher

somewhat nonsensical Not in the least! I’ve been busy the last couple of days with creating a generalized "n-order homophonic" solver an…

5 years ago
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Re: Routes again… this time, in the z408

As for "cipher route tip" or "looped null cipher", one could write a program to look for these phrases in shuffles of the Z340. Th…

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Re: Higher-order homophonic cipher

Random pads are more secure (unless someone finds a copy of the pad). Otherwise, If the pad is a plaintext taken from some source, then an attacker co…

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Re: Higher-order homophonic cipher

Yes, but I think it is primarily driven by the number of possible keys, which for homophonic is based on the size of the cipher alphabet. In that resp…

5 years ago
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Re: Project Zenith 2.1.0

do you anticipate a need for easily updating ciphertext directly in the dashboard? It’s always handy and also allows the user to copy-paste ciphers f…

5 years ago
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Re: Golden Cryptographer Decodes Messages Sent By Zodiac Kil

Nulls could be a simple explanation. And given enough nulls it becomes very difficult. Another example that comes to mind is the W.B. Tyler 2 cipher, …

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Re: Higher-order homophonic cipher

Yes, very confusing, is the unicity distance calculation different per cipher type? Because while it is called "higher-order homophonic" I w…

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