(30-06-2025, 01:49 AM)ReneZ wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It would be even better if any of the following were true:
- the resulting text is also known from other sources
- the mapping of single characters to words is based on some simple rule.
100%. Within the frame of these hypotheses (cipher + main western European language family), the concept of a few simple rules over a complicated ciphering mechanism is surely seductive - and depending on those rules it may prove super difficult for us to even deduct them while puzzling together the whole thing. Still, I think if the core ruleset would be so simple, someone would have figured something out by now after decades (centuries) of attacking the text. The fact that so many cryptographical attacks by experts have failed always leads me to believe that any cipher here (if there's any) has to be somewhat convoluted.
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I forgot to add State/context-dependent encoding (to be taken in a broad sense) as an option to Poll no. 2.