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Mr lowe
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Re: Homophonic substitution

Smokie ..Just read your bit about skipped or added symbols (nulls) and it made me think that if he used Scytale and had to use filler (junk) at the en…

10 years ago
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Thanks jarlve.. Interesting all the same some good lines but no solve.. I will double check my original z340 to make sure it was right and how I brou…

10 years ago
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To get my bigram 19 lined up I needed two full columns and the first cell of the third column that way it ended up a one cell increment.. I posted my …

10 years ago
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Hi. smokie. I agree this won’t solve the cipher but it may be the answer to the transposition..it’s a simple action that brings the period 19s’ into …

10 years ago
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Nice work smokie.. I only have access to Google excell ..no frills…. Don’t forget that when you column shift or row shift it wraps around to the nex…

10 years ago
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Jarlve..I have had no time to proof read the above. In fact now I come to think of it not 100% sure I used an original z340 test . PM me if you need …

10 years ago
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Jarlve..I have had no time to proof read the above. In fact now I come to think of it not 100% sure I used an original z340 test . PM me if you need …

10 years ago
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10 years ago
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Hi jarlve. I will as soon as I get good access to excell spreadsheet. As I’m on holidays and only running iPad.. My new Lenovo has not been booted up …

10 years ago
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Also the cylindrical object could be a baseball bat or similar that has the " conical" form which with no authority from me may change it fr…

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This is the flat pack version of the homemade scytale from the z340 wrap around from top to bottom on about a 5" pipe. It ends up being a one ste…

10 years ago
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Hi smokie..I like scytale as well because it’s simple and would have been in a lot of early basic cipher books..Boy Scout stuff as well. It’s midnigh…

10 years ago
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It’s an interesting concept because it actually works for the 19 bigram repeats. I will have to spend some time and check it to make sure Edit.. I hav…

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Spartan Scytale one of the oldest known transposition methods. Simple and effective when combined with multiple letter assignment and symbol encryp…

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Looking forward to it.. Can you put it up so we can copy and paste

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