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Jarlve
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Re: Route Transposition and Phenomenon

Here’s a thing I threw together quick to encode these types. I think it works, LOL! -glurk That’s really cool, glurk – thanks for posting that! I …

5 years ago
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Re: Route Transposition and Phenomenon

That’s allot of words. Will probably call it "random shifts" of "fixed shifts" or just "shifts" for AZdecrypt. The oth…

5 years ago
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Re: Route Transposition and Phenomenon

I found some time to implement this approach. Running all ciphers through with 6-grams though it seems that 5-grams may be enough. Here’s one solve an…

5 years ago
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Re: Route Transposition and Phenomenon

Thus, a proper approach would be the change to solver to have fixed N values, with an additional hill-climber on top to figure out the values of N. I…

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Re: The Tales of Dave Toschi

Yes, they can estimate the age of a suspect by prints. The ridges that form the pattern are more prominent in young individuals. Alternatively Zodiac …

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Re: The Tales of Dave Toschi

7. Allegedly, Toschi also told Hines that Zodiac could be “50 years old or even older”. He said this despite all public information regarding the Zodi…

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Re: Route Transposition and Phenomenon

Solve hasn’t come through yet, will need to investigate what the problem is. I encoded the plain text doranchak gave me with homophonic substitution …

5 years ago
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Re: Z408

Thank you greenglow2

5 years ago
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Re: Route Transposition and Phenomenon

Solve hasn’t come through yet, will need to investigate what the problem is. @doranchak, half the planet is gaming nowadays. @4on4off, it was a ver…

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Re: Route Transposition and Phenomenon

By the way, I started a new page to collect AZdecrypt "tips and tricks" here:

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Re: Route Transposition and Phenomenon

@4on4off, Thanks for using my program. The ambiguity I was referring to relates to the actual (real) solution of the cipher. Entire word combinations…

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Re: Segmented periods test & curiosities

Thanks for doing this test Largo. What are the odds of a having a repeated 6-gram with Z340 shuffles? I will run these tests again soon. But then w…

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Re: Route Transposition and Phenomenon

Thanks. The plain text solves easily doing the following in AZdecrypt: 1) Set solver to "Substitution + polyphones [user]". 2) Go to Functi…

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Re: Route Transposition and Phenomenon

What if Zodiac did that to his plaintext before substituting the letters for symbols? Could a solver like AZDecrypt still work out the correct solutio…

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Re: The Fingerprint…Paul Stine’s cab

Good question, I don’t know but the information you seek may be in the FBI files somewhere.

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