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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

As almost always you have found the solution impressively fast. And as always, I forgot that we had discussed a similar idea before. I remember a kin…

6 years ago
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Re: Route Transposition and Phenomenon

I’m currently working on a new idea and collecting data from various tests. The whole thing is a bit more time-consuming, but I hope to finish it this…

6 years ago
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Re: AZdecrypt WinGUI

Hey Jarlve and beijinghouse, many thanks to both of you for this really cool update! It’s really great when people work together and develop awesome …

6 years ago
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Re: New tool: Peek-a-boo

there is a small update for Peek-a-boo. I added a tool to draw transposition matrices. I know that this already exists in AZDecrypt. But I wanted to b…

6 years ago
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Re: Z13: Suspect or POI names that fit?

I can only surmise that he lost his train of thought when he carried over between cipher 2 and 3. Because that section finished with "the best pa…

6 years ago
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Re: Route Transposition and Phenomenon

Thanks for sharing that smokie. I like this idea, but I don’t know when I’ll find the time to take a closer look. At the moment, unfortunately, my tim…

6 years ago
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Re: Detecting fake periods

I have changed my measurement method for testing purposes. Instead of collecting the best periods in a list, I added the number of nGrams per best per…

6 years ago
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Re: Z13: Suspect or POI names that fit?

I suppose People 7, teenagers 3, couples 1, SFPD 0. Wow, you’re absolutely right. I didn’t notice that he uses "people" so often. Still, …

6 years ago
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Re: Detecting fake periods

Try to solve it as a regular homophonic cipher, not a transposition. That might be the one where I manipulated the key until I got a false spike at P1…

6 years ago
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Re: Z13: Suspect or POI names that fit?

I’m pretty convinced that the last line of z408 is actually just a filler. My reason can be found at this link: viewtopic.php?f=81&t=279&p=48…

6 years ago
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Re: Detecting fake periods

Here is smokie18e. It is a p1 cipher but smokie changed symbols or letters around to create a fake period at p19. Your test scores p19 at 158. What do…

6 years ago
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Re: New tool: Peek-a-boo

Hey, I’ve added a new dialog called Deceptive Periods. With this dialog you can create charts as shown in the thread viewtopic.php?f=81&t=4245. T…

6 years ago
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Re: Route Transposition and Phenomenon

Hi Jarlve, I’ve added this transposition to my solver for the next AZdecrypt release. It has solved your cipher and no results on the 340 so far. It…

6 years ago
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Re: Detecting fake periods

Hi, If we know how false spikes are created, then perhaps we will know how to detect them. Perhaps make some variant of the idea above. Many thank…

6 years ago
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Re: Detecting fake periods

You might want to consider making plaintext transpositions, without substitution, with different sizes and shapes of inscription rectangles, to see if…

6 years ago
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