12-09-2016, 02:14 PM
I don't know if the top-10 is the same for Currier A and B (judging by Julian's thread it is not, but his methodology was not correct and he has not posted updated results yet).
The argument I expressed above - it is an attempt to shed more light on the nature of the underlying defference between A and B.
Frequent vords are frequent vords. It is of no surprise that they appear both in A and B. Like the word "rot" appears in English, Swedish, German etc. Moreover, two different plain text words may map into the same pair of overlay words with two different procedures. Like plaintext 1 via procedure A yields ciphertext 1, plaintext 2 via procedure A yields ciphertext 2, but, at the same time, plaintext 1 via procedure B yields ciphertext 2 and plaintext 2 via procedure A yields ciphertext 1. Furthermore, if some nomenclator is in place, then frequent words would just map into the same ciphertext in both A and B.
The argument I expressed above - it is an attempt to shed more light on the nature of the underlying defference between A and B.
Frequent vords are frequent vords. It is of no surprise that they appear both in A and B. Like the word "rot" appears in English, Swedish, German etc. Moreover, two different plain text words may map into the same pair of overlay words with two different procedures. Like plaintext 1 via procedure A yields ciphertext 1, plaintext 2 via procedure A yields ciphertext 2, but, at the same time, plaintext 1 via procedure B yields ciphertext 2 and plaintext 2 via procedure A yields ciphertext 1. Furthermore, if some nomenclator is in place, then frequent words would just map into the same ciphertext in both A and B.