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Jarlve
Jarlve
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Re: z408 – Encryption Mistakes – A Deep Dive?

– The "slope" of the sequence "1212321…" is -1. For example, the sequence "123123123123123" has a positive slope since…

6 years ago
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Re: z408 – Encryption Mistakes – A Deep Dive?

The frequency for 23 wouldn’t tell you exactly the distribution of 23 bigrams in the cipher though, would it? I know 23 shows up when the substitutio…

6 years ago
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Re: z408 – Encryption Mistakes – A Deep Dive?

Did you know that he intentionally created matching double L bigrams in the first part? Except for the first LL: L LL L LL L L LL LL 1 21 2 32 1 2 …

6 years ago
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Re: AZdecrypt 1.18

Thanks. I thought I would not like or need this feature but it is hard to go back after a few days of using it.

6 years ago
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Re: z408 – Encryption Mistakes – A Deep Dive?

Jarlve, please. The distinction between a plaintext letter and its homophonic substitutions is not lost on me. I do not know how to help you understan…

6 years ago
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Re: AZdecrypt 1.18

The upcoming "add spaces" functionality for AZdecrypt is turning out really well. It is a original implementation based on letter n-grams, s…

6 years ago
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Re: z408 – Encryption Mistakes – A Deep Dive?

I am not in favor of E and S being confused this way but it is possible. This literally happened Yes, but that does not mean that he mixed up E an…

6 years ago
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Re: z408 – Encryption Mistakes – A Deep Dive?

I do not understand how, if he is doing this systematically and keeping track of where he is with each letter and their substitutions that he is also …

6 years ago
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Re: Finder’s Theory on QWERTY keyboard and Zodiac 408

If anyone is interested, I drew up a new key for the 408 that Includes what I think are the correct cycle positions for each symbol and which is organ…

6 years ago
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Re: z408 – Encryption Mistakes – A Deep Dive?

It’s an interesting observation. I wonder if the keyboard layout really did play a role in him making the cipher key. It’s hard to tell since a lot of…

6 years ago
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Re: z408 – There Might be Plaintext in the Key

This will probably destroy what little credibility I’ve managed to cobble together over the past week. That said, I’m having a really hard time piecin…

6 years ago
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Re: Route Transposition and Phenomenon

Thanks for giving it a try, Jarlve. I suppose this rules out Z340 being enciphered using Hafer shifts. Probably. But I would like to revisit it some…

6 years ago
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Re: AZdecrypt 1.18

Z340: Score: 20090.57 IOC: 0.0751 Multiplicity: 0.1852 Seconds: 4.90 Repeats: ERTT THER TING TTH NTO ANT ISI ERE (2) TEA AR…

6 years ago
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Re: AZdecrypt 1.18

I am adding a word spacer for the next release of AZdecrypt that can be enabled/disabled and here’s a preview: Score: 23159.31 IOC: 0.0654…

6 years ago
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Re: Route Transposition and Phenomenon

Here are the Hafer results for the Z340. Pretty sure that it didn’t solve: Reddit 6-grams: Score: 23787.60 IOC: 0.0768 Multiplicity&…

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