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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: Route Transposition and Phenomenon

Hey, I worked on something similar to this. A knight’s tour variation, or transposition that looks like knight’s tour when it is done One of my las…

8 years ago
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Re: This man thinks the 340 is a fake cipher

Hi, I’m doing well, thanks. How about you? It’s nice to see with how much enthusiasm and eagerness both of you are working on the null/skip thing. Es…

8 years ago
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Re: This man thinks the 340 is a fake cipher

Wow, this is quite an interesting event overall. Many of the topics are exactly my cup of tea. Will you be there, Jarlve?

8 years ago
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Re: Yet another transposition idea

Hello, today I have decided to stop working on z340. I had a great time here in the forum and would like to thank everyone. It is nice to exchange id…

8 years ago
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Re: Columnar rearrangement and keyed columnar transposition

408 cipher, columns randomized in 34 by 10 as test: spike at 17*20 with 70.89% improvement rate and at 34*10 with 40.6% improvement rate. Oops

8 years ago
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Re: Yet another transposition idea

A minor update: I have written a small tool that creates word lists / dictionaries from text files (e. g. Project Gutenberg books). These serve as th…

8 years ago
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Re: Columnar rearrangement and keyed columnar transposition

I’m glad you’re back in, Jarlve. Did you also use reference encodings for comparison in this test? Are they recognized as columnar rearrangements / ke…

8 years ago
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Re: Yet another transposition idea

Hi capricorn, yes, rail fence has been tested as well as skytale (wrapping a strip of paper around a pencil). The "byfire" rearrangement is…

8 years ago
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Re: Yet another transposition idea

Hi Mr lowe, this is a very interesting one! Is it a shuffled or modified z340 with different symbols used? It has a lot in common with z340 (same ra…

8 years ago
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Re: Yet another transposition idea

Thanks to everyone for the feedback and new ideas! I don’t know how much time I can invest in the next few days, but hopefully I will be able to contr…

8 years ago
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Re: Yet another transposition idea

Jarlve: Yes, I agree with you. In my example there can only be one "+"-pair. If the entire bottom line is filled with "+"-symbols,…

8 years ago
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Re: Yet another transposition idea

But there is maybe another attack vector which I am examining at the moment: Split the cipher at each occuring "+"-Symbol da:+ ==Ax3…

8 years ago
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Re: Yet another transposition idea

Yes, if the keyword is short, Brute-Force is possible. That’s what I’m working on right now. I hope Zodiac was lazy and used a short, repeated word. I…

8 years ago
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Re: Yet another transposition idea

Do you get a spike at P19 with the numbers? Yes. You can copy your numbers into AZDecrypt and click "Format -> Convert to characters" an…

8 years ago
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Re: Yet another transposition idea

smokie: When I convert my cipher to numbers using AZDecrypt, I get the same result as you. Seems fine to me. I’ts end of the work day now and have a …

8 years ago
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