You were too quick for me smokie! I had another look and yeah that is how it seems. So maybe just the backwards B could have been forced to make the p…
Hi again all! Great work Doranchak, Jarlve and Sam on the solution. Must be satisfying (and a little frustrating!) to see how close some of the theori…
This is really interesting! Thanks for sharing. So – let me check I’m following along – the heatmaps are showing symbol positions where mostly perfec…
One problem with looking at cycle breaks is that they will not show up on the actual position True, but would we not expect to see a statistical bump…
Jarlve, a thought on: – 2) Can someone figure out another test to see if a 18th column was removed after homophonic substitution? Given the 63^20 sea…
Hmm. That certainly indicates as you say that homophonic encipherment was essentially the last thing he did to the cipher, retaining the spread of sym…
Do you think he transposed the parts at the plain text or cipher text level? This "theory" I’ve proposed (more thought experiment really!) …
No problem questioning it! One of the reasons I posted is because you can spend so long looking at it you convince yourself you’ve spotted patterns so…
Hi All! I’m new here so please be nice . I just wanted to see if this had been proposed before (had a search on some of the threads and didn’t spot …