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Re: Route Transposition and Phenomenon

If you made a scytale message 19 x 18 and wrote vertically, and there was a section that was repeated over and over again at this interval, it would m…

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Re: Route Transposition and Phenomenon

At P19, if the repeated message was 53 long, it would make pivots. Or, if there was a word or short phrase repeated at intervals of 53, there would be…

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Re: Route Transposition and Phenomenon

I got a pretty good partial solve in just a few seconds with AZD. Thanks! 21 00 15 42 50 31 52 08 08 56 00 22 16 27 10 40 32 11 40 17 51 33 53 12 13 …

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Re: Route Transposition and Phenomenon

I have a new, adjusted hypothesis. Here is what might create pivots in the middle of the message and P29 or P39. He used a cylinder with a paper taped…

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Re: Route Transposition and Phenomenon

The bigram repeat chart shows a pattern unlike the 340 and the coincidence count spike is way, way higher. But, my hypothesis is that there is a …

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Re: Route Transposition and Phenomenon

I found a way to make pivots with a cipher. I added a new spreadsheet to my transposition utility which takes a matrix and uses a mod function to repe…

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Re: Route Transposition and Phenomenon

O.k., thanks. Just curious and thought that you may have already experimented with this.

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Re: Route Transposition and Phenomenon

If the same plaintext was written over and over again in a pattern, then there should be Kasiski spikes if we read the message in the right direction,…

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Re: Route Transposition and Phenomenon

Jarlve ~ If there was a plaintext written LRTB in a homophonic 63 cryptogram, and it was shorter than 340 but written over and over again, how would …

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Re: Route Transposition and Phenomenon

Thanks for your work, Largo. The matrix wasn’t intended to make P19, but perhaps future ones will. I would like to think that there is still a plainte…

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Re: Route Transposition and Phenomenon

I encoded 1000 messages from American Short Stories each starting with 35 pivots totalling 35,000 pivots. After 63 diffusion, here is how many pivots …

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Re: Route Transposition and Phenomenon

I have a new matrix that makes as many pivots as possible. I repeat little sections of a message that is 205 letters long like this: I got 35 piv…

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Re: Number of plausible keys for Z340

Wow, thanks doranchak and Cragle. The typewriter art and cross word puzzle pictures are very interesting.

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Re: Number of plausible keys for Z340

"Text Art" or "ASCII Art" is actually a thing. I found it on Google. People make all kinds of pictures with letters, but most of t…

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Re: Number of plausible keys for Z340

What about this idea. If there was an inscription or transposition that makes a lot of pivots ( I am experimenting with one now which seems to work we…

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