25-10-2023, 01:51 AM
(24-10-2023, 08:32 PM)nablator wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.How would labels be protected? Without nulls, all labels should have an even length. There isn't room for many nulls anyway, so the nulls would be quickly discovered. A few unpaired glyphs would make things more difficult.
Yes, you are correct, that labels present certain challenges. Not for nulls, if you have a clearly separate label, it is possible to use any unpaired character as a null. E.g., using the qokeedy example scheme: oqokyek has two pairs o-y and k-k, qo is an unpaired null, since no terminator corresponds to it.
Another problem is there are many assumed labels of 3-5 characters with no anagrams (the order or characters appears to be fully fixed). If this cipher encoded text by placing the same terminators at different spacial positions, a lot of apparent anagramming is expected. This could work if short labels are just letter/number references or not labels at all, but some technical marks. Anyway, there is no specific evidence for a distance based cipher, for now I'm only arguing that there is no specific evidence against it either.
Personally, I will focus on one-to-many additive ciphers in general.