Anton > 21-02-2023, 10:43 PM
kckluge > 22-02-2023, 05:15 AM
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(21-02-2023, 09:55 PM)Mark Knowles Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I never quite sure precisely what people mean when they use the term "substitution cipher". Do they just mean a cipher when each letter is substituted with a letter or symbol? Or do they include a more complex cipher with homophones, nulls, substring substitutions, word substitutions etc.
Anton > 22-02-2023, 01:18 PM
(22-02-2023, 05:15 AM)kckluge Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Apologies if this shows up with excessive unnecessary white space between paragraphs -- not sure why that's happening...
(22-02-2023, 05:15 AM)kckluge Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.What I am suggesting is that hypothesizing something like the text being "a forgotten language [in] an unknown script designed specifically for ethnic group having no their script of their own" is all to often used as an excuse to ignore, dismiss, or otherwise fail/refuse to engage with the actual, concrete statistical properties of the text. It isn't.
(22-02-2023, 05:15 AM)kckluge Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Robert's posts on his Goodreads page (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.) regarding the papers from the Malta conference are thoughtful and well worth reading.
dfs346 > 02-03-2023, 02:28 PM
kckluge > 11-03-2023, 07:33 PM
kckluge > 11-03-2023, 07:59 PM
(21-02-2023, 09:55 PM)Mark Knowles Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I never quite sure precisely what people mean when they use the term "substitution cipher". Do they just mean a cipher when each letter is substituted with a letter or symbol? Or do they include a more complex cipher with homophones, nulls, substring substitutions, word substitutions etc.
Mark Knowles > 12-03-2023, 11:33 AM
(11-03-2023, 07:59 PM)kckluge Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(21-02-2023, 09:55 PM)Mark Knowles Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I never quite sure precisely what people mean when they use the term "substitution cipher". Do they just mean a cipher when each letter is substituted with a letter or symbol? Or do they include a more complex cipher with homophones, nulls, substring substitutions, word substitutions etc.
Mark,
While looking for something else, i came across the following book chapter on enciphering methods -- it's discussion of the different types of substitution ciphers probably answers your question in a more authoritative way relative to standard usage: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
Karl
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