Posted on 06/01/2015 8:34:50 PM PDT by OK Sun
I’ve been thinking a little more about how to go about cracking Scorpion Cipher S5.
I mentioned before that I thought that the encipherer might well have started from an elegant-looking 26×16 grid filled with diagonally-downward families of shapes, and that this arrangement might offer codebreakers some additional kind of “spatial logic” to support their efforts that traditional ciphers don’t usually provide.
From the letters that accompanied the ciphertexts, my inference is that the Scorpion is like a smart 12-year-old who has just ‘got’ the elegance of maths: but this leads me to a secondary inference that he/she probably didn’t understand modulo addition, because if he/she did, then we would surely have seen more 16-element shape families in the text.
I’ll explain with the help of a diagram of the kind of 26×16 grid I’m talking about:
(Excerpt) Read more at ciphermysteries.com ...
sah-weet!
John 3:16...
Do I win?
May be of interest.
:’) Thanks.
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