(03-11-2017, 12:40 AM)Psillycyber wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.What do you mean cleartext:ciphertext? Are you talking about nulls? Yeah, probably about a third or a fourth of the glyphs in my message are nulls.
I'm not sure exactly what voynichbombe was asking, but cleartext:ciphertext doesn't refer to nulls.
Cleartext << This is cleartext—text that you can readily read.
vo[jryrcy << This is ciphertext—in this case, a 1-to-1substitution code without nulls.
I think where the confusion lies is that the nulls are a subset of the ciphertext, but it might be better to refer to the ciphered cleartext as meaningful text and the ciphered nulls as nulls to prevent confusion. Cryptographers have quite a bit of fairly specific jargon, but for the purposes of a general thread, we probably don't need to go into those.