On plain texts and ciphers (a thought experiment)
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@marco:  You can find specific letters in many scripts, in many languages, but when you simply make a chart and count them, you always get already more than 17 / 22 /26 letters in those scripts.

If you make then the positional chart you can simply compare those. SYou are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. But I pointed that out many times already, and I'm sorry if I'm bothersome with that. The point is, you can then see in one view if you can make match, for any language and what the shifts are. Yes, also when the letters have been substituted.

In my opinion it is much more interesting to look at individual letters and the usage of those letters (and the transcript of those) in the same period.
Looking at those, it is also obvious that some degree of "horizontal and vertical repeats" are common. Although in the VMS they are more frequent.

Take for example:
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RE: On plain texts and ciphers (a thought experiment) - by Davidsch - 07-06-2018, 11:40 AM

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