22-09-2026, 07:04 PM
(22-09-2026, 01:48 PM)Jorge_Stolfi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.For one thing, because such a cipher would have been cracked long ago.Imagine that I wanted to complicate the homophonic cipher with nulls by doing the following:
1). By assigning various numerical values to the letters
2). Marking vowels in words as two symbols separated by a space.
3). By distributing the letters within the word into anagrams.
4). And having created a second alphabet, he applied it to his own cipher wheel.
Something similar is likely to be done by a non‑expert — they will make something that already exists more complicated rather than creating something new.
Also, this argument “they would have cracked it long ago” doesn’t work. For example, there’s Cryptos — a somewhat more complex version of the Vigenère cipher. The last text on the tablet hasn’t been deciphered yet (even with the clues). Is this nonsense?
There are Bale’s cryptograms. One of the texts was cracked manually (!), and in our world of technology, it would be a piece of cake to crack it. Maybe it’s not a cipher after all?

