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Re: Number of plausible keys for Z340

I have an idea for an experiment that I will consider. Make 1000 messages that are 170 letters long, and make as many 3×3 pivots as possible by reflec…

5 years ago
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Re: Number of plausible keys for Z340

I had a weird idea – What if the plaintext was actually just a drawing or pattern made with regular letters? Something like this simple 17×20 example,…

5 years ago
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Re: Number of plausible keys for Z340

One of the guys who programs homophonic substitution solvers needs to answer this question about number of possible keys.

5 years ago
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Re: Z340 and the first repeated symbols

Language excused and it is perfectly twisted.

5 years ago
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Re: Z340 and the first repeated symbols

I like that and am pondering symbol selection as some type of function. I think it may be a function of something that causes the pivots, but I don’t …

5 years ago
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Re: Strange transposition or a hoax?

Period 17 is low because you are just shifting columns up and down, and the message is 17 columns wide. I mean, you aren’t changing anything as far as…

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Re: Z340 and the first repeated symbols

4.55% is still pretty low. EDIT: But what if you just make sure to introduce every symbol in the beginning by using a perfect cycle, then increase th…

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Re: Bigram and Cycle Counts

Hey all — my apologies if I’m rehashing things that have already been talked about. I just wanted to share some quick findings and also ask for a li…

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Re: Z340 and the first repeated symbols

Yes, maybe, because if he started with perfect cycles, then he would be sure to pack all of the symbols in the shortest possible all-symbol substring …

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Re: Z340 and the first repeated symbols

I will take a look into your idea of finding the shortest sub string that contains all symbols to see if it can further corroborate the findings. It …

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Re: Route Transposition and Phenomenon

I am in the process of reading through this thread and making the table of contents with the links much more thorough. If someone wants something spec…

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Re: Homophonic substitution

Hey Jarlve ~ I am taking a break from cryptography and reading classical literature these days. I did make a matrix that would produce a lot of pivot…

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Re: Homophonic substitution

Is there something significant about period 9?

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Re: Lawrence Public Library Cryptogram

I also thought, if someone randomly circled 7 symbols from a chunk of text the same size as the chunk of text from I to A in IAAYYAA, how many times w…

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Re: Lawrence Public Library Cryptogram

Few corrections: First 3 characters: YMB = YBM Line 5: WIWLR = WIWLT Thanks – I’ve updated my earlier post. I would like to update the first post to…

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