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Jarlve
Jarlve
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Re: Let’s Crack Zodiac – Episode 3 – The 408

Why would he send it anonymously right after he was already outed as the solver? And the errors don’t seem to line up with his known worksheets. Som…

6 years ago
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Re: Let’s Crack Zodiac – Episode 3 – The 408

Great episode and very lengthy, impressive! Everything is crystal clear. Good chance that the Hardens sent the code key:

6 years ago
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Re: AZdecrypt 1.18

What about rows bound method? Do you normalize somehow the bigram scores and trigram scores to match the quadram scores? Or do you have three differen…

6 years ago
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Re: AZdecrypt 1.18

Hey smokie, First, keeping in mind that this is only a simple substitution solver so that I can focus my future time and computer power to transposi…

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Re: AZdecrypt 1.18

Does each cipher unit stand for a plaintext unigram, or a bigram? Both, in the plain text, every unique bigram occurs only at even or uneven position…

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Re: Route Transposition and Phenomenon

Jarlve, I really like this visual. I have wondered (like everyone), why so many +’s? At one point I wondered, well, what if Z wrote out text into each…

6 years ago
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Re: Route Transposition and Phenomenon

If you haven’t yet, then pick up programming, it is actually a very relaxing and rewarding thing to start with. I did. When the bookstores opened bac…

6 years ago
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Re: Count Marco

Zodiac sure copied/sourced allot of stuff. Though I wonder where he saw Count Marco’s handwriting?

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Re: Count Marco

Nice find BDHOLLAND. I am totally baffled. Did Marco recycle (or invent?) hate mail or did the 1962 complainer write back to him in 1969? I think t…

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Re: A Proposed Solution to the 340

I propose that the zodiac just encrypted something like a standard word-search… ie: he took a word search, put the ‘circle the words’ etc…message…

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Re: A Proposed Solution to the 340

Hey akias007, Welcome to the forum. Your proposed solution is: Hoot at the Halloween. Circle the words to seeh the helot hell rwaiting chaptr. Plus …

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Re: Route Transposition and Phenomenon

@doranchak, I see that you also had the 5-gram discovered. I find it interesting that 2 out of 3 unconnected pivots are linked to the last row in the …

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Re: AZdecrypt 1.18

This cipher stupefied me for a bit, it is oddly interesting. It has only 2 trigram repeats and because of that is solvable as both a bigram substituti…

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Re: AZdecrypt 1.18

dont worry jarlve it wont be you. i have 7 zip downloaded. i will get back to you on the weekend. cheers Is it working now Mr lowe? — Someone w…

6 years ago
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Re: New online tool: Cipher Explorer

Wishlist: – Option to swap text and background color (foreground/background). Something like this is present in virtually all imaging software and it…

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