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Largo
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Re: Increasingly random cycles in the 408 and 340

Yes. But it is gradual enough not? And since I ran the test manually it would have meant going through 339 increments. Yeah, it should be gradual en…

6 years ago
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Re: Increasingly random cycles in the 408 and 340

Largo: What do you mean "the disturbed line breaks"? I don’t think anybody has discussed what you are showing before. "Disturbed&quot…

6 years ago
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Re: Increasingly random cycles in the 408 and 340

Thank you for the explanation Jarlve. I’ll implement that in peek-a-boo as soon as I find some time.

6 years ago
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Re: Increasingly random cycles in the 408 and 340

The interruption can’t be periodic since my encoding randomization tests finds such stuff easily: The result is more than clear. Your test is really…

6 years ago
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Re: Increasingly random cycles in the 408 and 340

Edit: There are no perfect 4/5 cycles in the sample cipher. If find some time I’ll try to generate a better one.

6 years ago
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Re: Increasingly random cycles in the 408 and 340

Hi, all right, I’ll give it a try: First let’s assume that Zodiac used the following procedure to substitute a plaintext: viewtopic.php?f=81&t=3…

6 years ago
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Re: Increasingly random cycles in the 408 and 340

The cycles give clues as to which line is to be read in which order imho. Its not that its cycling randomly its that you are reading the wrong line o…

6 years ago
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Re: AZdecrypt WinGUI

Thank you for the new version Jarlve! The logo is really cool!

6 years ago
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Re: Is there a need for an OpenSource solver?

Sorry for the late answer. I am very busy at the moment and only have time on weekends. How do we discuss algorithms? I suppose they could be dis…

6 years ago
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Re: Is there a need for an OpenSource solver?

I cleaned up the source code, reduced it to a minimum and added comments. Threading, manipulation/transpositions and statistics have been completely e…

6 years ago
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Re: Is there a need for an OpenSource solver?

I would be interested in this. I think it is a good idea since it may lead to future collaboration with other developers. That’s exactly what I’m hop…

6 years ago
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Re: Special bigram peaks

My take on this – per the thread – is that these "special bigram peaks" could be an indication of a 2-dimensional period 19 transposition ra…

6 years ago
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Re: Special bigram peaks

Some of my current experiments deal with very simple shifting operations. I have been using some of the known manipulations that lead to special bigra…

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