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Joined: February 19, 2015 10:34 pm
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Re: Lies, damned lies and coincidences.

We have also looked at the cycle A B A B pattern and other cycle patterns going from two directions from each of four corners and it is most cyclic r…

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Re: Lies, damned lies and coincidences.

CK ~ Some of those white spaces in the upper left and lower right show up again as two white vertical columns 3 and 4 f you cast the message into 19 …

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Re: Previous research and results

What is interesting is that the + symbol contributes far more to creating bigrams than disrupting them. None of the optimal null patterns included re…

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Re: Previous research and results

Also, there has been discussion and experimentation regarding the + symbol as a null, some or all of different combinations of the pivots symbols as n…

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Re: Previous research and results

Nulls have been explored, but it is a very difficult subject and it is possible that the subject has not been explored enough. For route transpositio…

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Re: Lies, damned lies and coincidences.

No problem. Welcome to the discussion. I am really very thankful for this site. I like the record, even if scattered, and I like the sandbox and coll…

5 years ago
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Re: Previous research and results

I have a table of contents for my thread, but it is a work in progress. viewtopic.php?f=81&t=3196

5 years ago
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Re: Lies, damned lies and coincidences.

I would have to defend trying to attach significance to a pattern. If you were trying to decide how you were going to spend the next 1,000 hours worki…

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Re: Is z340 a grid cipher?

That conversation starts at about 8th post here, but you can go forward and back in the thread right around here to get more context.

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Re: Number of plausible keys for Z340

Largo ~ I believe that a lot of these observations are related somehow. Read through this thread. viewtopic.php?f=81&t=3070 There are period 26…

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Re: Number of plausible keys for Z340

Yes I was thinking about that, Largo. I could probably make a route cryptogram at P20, then try to merge symbols to increase P20, but it wouldn’t give…

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Re: Route Transposition and Phenomenon

this is it largo… if you need i can show it from a spreadsheet view but i will have to take a pic of it and post it cheers I use Microsoft Snippin…

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Re: Route Transposition and Phenomenon

hi smokie.. i have tried lots of times to get a scytale to wrap and form in a pivot with no success. i can see your line of thinking but i am not sur…

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Re: Number of plausible keys for Z340

My approach to automating would be to build a hillclimber for it. It would have some way to merge symbols from candidate incomplete pivots to form co…

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