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Largo
@largo
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Joined: June 14, 2016 1:38 pm
Last seen: April 8, 2022 2:51 pm
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Re: A Solver for Mac Users

The search space seems daunting. Isn’t it actually around 68! times 26^63 (if you used 63 symbols in the substitution)? Yes, that’s right. The search…

6 years ago
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Re: A Solver for Mac Users

A new test: The first 340 characters of z408 were disrupted into 68 parts of 5 characters each. These fragments were randomly rearranged. Example: …

6 years ago
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Re: A Solver for Mac Users

Jarlve, smokie: Currently the method is quite simple and the algorithm is rather "naive". So far I have only implemented predefined transpo…

6 years ago
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Re: A Solver for Mac Users

I have added some new features in the last days. However, I don’t want to release today, because the version is not stable enough yet. However, I’m p…

6 years ago
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Re: Evolving 2 symbol cycles.

Thank you Quicktrader for the detailed description of the key frequencies! I will take a closer look at this, it looks really interesting. Well, bes…

6 years ago
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Re: Evolving 2 symbol cycles.

The encryptor can either choose a sequence, shuffle the homophones or use a group of homophones for certain parts of the cipher. … When ‘creating’ …

6 years ago
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Re: Evolving 2 symbol cycles.

The problem is that we cannot even say that the cycles are interrupted though that is one possibility. We need to formulate some hypotheses for the 34…

6 years ago
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Re: Evolving 2 symbol cycles.

With sequential homophonic substitution ciphers, even when they are "perfectly cyclic", they are not perfect as in your first text and all s…

6 years ago
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Re: American Cryptogram Association convention

The American Cryptogram Association is having a convention in Asheville, NC next month and I plan to give a talk there on Saturday, September 8th Go…

6 years ago
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Re: Strange Zodiac letter on the FBI website

Thank you Coffee Time and Quicktrader!

6 years ago
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Re: Strange Zodiac letter on the FBI website

strange…the link is correct, but it only works if you copy and paste it. Direct clicking doesn’t seem to work with all browsers. Could you try copy…

6 years ago
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Re: A little bit different solution to z340

For years, I’ve seen many obviously intelligent and cipher-savvy individuals grapple with, and be bested by, the z340, et al. IF the cipher is a bona …

7 years ago
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