A Cipher Thought Experiment
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I agree with others. Breaking an unknown cipher in unknown language (which could be ancient Egyptian than nobody knows) and dealing with unknown subject is hard.

People were often able to break military and diplomatic ciphers only because they knew the context and expected some words to appear there. French Great Cipher was broken because the man who solved it correctly guessed les ennemis ("the enemies") phrase. Nazi ciphers were often broken because they contained repetitive things like "wetter" (weather) or "Heil Hitler" and so on.

Breaking a single instance of a more advanced cipher is hard. Breaking the Zodiac cipher took over 60 years and it was broken only by brute force and a bit of luck.

But I'm happy to learn how your cipher works.
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A Cipher Thought Experiment - by trajan117 - 21-03-2025, 02:37 AM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by nablator - 21-03-2025, 10:11 AM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by trajan117 - 21-03-2025, 01:49 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by oshfdk - 21-03-2025, 11:08 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by oshfdk - 21-03-2025, 10:18 AM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by Rafal - 21-03-2025, 12:51 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by RobGea - 21-03-2025, 01:01 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by Koen G - 21-03-2025, 01:26 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by nablator - 21-03-2025, 02:10 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by trajan117 - 21-03-2025, 07:03 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by Koen G - 21-03-2025, 09:21 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by nablator - 21-03-2025, 10:52 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by trajan117 - 21-03-2025, 06:02 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by oshfdk - 22-03-2025, 12:09 AM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by oshfdk - 22-03-2025, 12:30 AM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by nablator - 22-03-2025, 04:50 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by oshfdk - 22-03-2025, 04:52 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by oshfdk - 22-03-2025, 04:56 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by nablator - 23-03-2025, 06:21 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by RobGea - 22-03-2025, 06:10 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by asteckley - 22-03-2025, 11:12 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by oshfdk - 23-03-2025, 11:17 AM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by nablator - 23-03-2025, 11:25 AM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by oshfdk - 23-03-2025, 11:45 AM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by nablator - 23-03-2025, 11:49 AM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by oshfdk - 23-03-2025, 01:59 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by asteckley - 23-03-2025, 03:41 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by oshfdk - 23-03-2025, 04:01 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by asteckley - 23-03-2025, 04:16 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by nablator - 23-03-2025, 03:50 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by ReneZ - 23-03-2025, 12:02 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by oshfdk - 23-03-2025, 07:43 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by oshfdk - 24-03-2025, 10:14 AM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by nablator - 24-03-2025, 10:33 AM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by Ruby Novacna - 24-03-2025, 12:15 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by nablator - 24-03-2025, 12:36 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by oshfdk - 24-03-2025, 11:26 AM

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