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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
Topics: 33 / Replies: 421
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Re: 2D-Transposition and magic squares

Allow some randomness in your key Okay, I’ll try that. I tested a total of 296189 ciphers, not just 157. Each of the ciphers was transposed with f…

7 years ago
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Re: 2D-Transposition and magic squares

I did some tests with the idea shown above. To do this, I automatically generated ciphers from a large amount of plain text and only sorted out those …

7 years ago
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Re: AZdecrypt WinGUI

This was just a suggestion for an alternative because of the issues of SpiderBasic. Well…admittedly…a bit of dreaming about such a tool was also p…

7 years ago
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Re: AZdecrypt WinGUI

What about the idea of running the solver as a stand-alone program in server mode? I did this once with my monoalphabetic solver. It runs as a simple …

7 years ago
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Re: AZdecrypt WinGUI

Wow, that’s great! A platform-independent solver would indeed be a really, really helpful thing! It’s really motivating to watch your progress!

7 years ago
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Re: 2D-Transposition and magic squares

Jarlve: Thank you for the analysis. I need to take a closer look so that I can better understand your findings. Here is another cipher, this time wit…

7 years ago
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Re: 2D-Transposition and magic squares

The sample cipher in the first post is based on 18×18 and the plaintext is from Jarlves plaintext library. There are four quadrants, each transposed w…

7 years ago
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Re: 2D-Transposition and magic squares

You never know what might end up making a difference, and being close minded doesn’t help anything I agree with that. However, I always try to favou…

7 years ago
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Re: Route Transposition and Phenomenon

Here is the gridmaker web gadget showing the construction of the magic square: The tool is very useful, thank you for sharing it! When I find the tim…

7 years ago
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Re: Route Transposition and Phenomenon

That just got me working on z340 again. I’m totally psyched right now. Sorry when I brag: The first two comments in the link shown by David are from m…

7 years ago
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Re: EBEORIETEMETHHPITI

It does almost seem like he missed an entire line, which might account for at least 17 of the 18 filler characters at the end. … There you can see …

7 years ago
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Re: Not all homophonic substitutions can be auto-solved

Here is a link to a github repository that I’ve used as a starting point: The corresponding article (very informative and well written):

7 years ago
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Re: Not all homophonic substitutions can be auto-solved

This sounds great and just like what I am looking for. Is the initial code up on github? Unfortunately not. A couple of weeks ago I stopped working on…

7 years ago
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Re: 340 "see through" attempt

Hi, Jarlve, this is really a very interesting investigation. I think it’s very important to know how z340 was made. However, I must disagree with you…

8 years ago
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