bigscoop
Gold Member
- Jun 4, 2010
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- Older blue Excal with full mods, Equinox 800.
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- All Treasure Hunting
There are 26 letters in the alphabet, to each of these the ciphers, let's say C1, provides over 100 matching code possibilities per letter. Now multiply this by the number of possible correct spelling orders. You would be better off trying to predict the next Powerball drawing.
The notion that anyone can, without some means of a known/accurate starting point, use any form of decoding principle to determine the correct assignment of each code is a fantasy. Period!
However, if we had some insight into what the cipher actually contains that might offer a little help, but we don't. As far as we know it might contain absolutely nothing, or it could simply be a confession from the author, or a clear text that was simply designed to lead yet another goose chase, etc. A second example would be that the codes are all just random entries with no intended value attached to them at all other then the author's own personal preference in their arrangement, which in itself could lead to existing "patterns" that in reality are totally meaningless.
Could be that only a few codes in the entire cipher contain any real value, or that several meaningless codes have been inserted, etc., etc., etc. Will patterns still exist? Yes, they will, but are they meaningful? Not very likely.
This is why ciphers are used, and this is also why, historically speaking, that ciphers of completely unknown meaning and/or origin with no known starting point still remain undecided today. The possibilities are unlimited in this type of complete unknowns.
To date, we still don't know anything of value about the narration, the people and details it portrays, the author, or in general, the source or the true nature of the tale. And last, if those ciphers actually "did" contain a clear text then we have absolutely no way to know what type of cipher they might have actually been. So all of these complete unknowns allow for us to make them whatever we want or believe them to be. Sad but all-too true.
The notion that anyone can, without some means of a known/accurate starting point, use any form of decoding principle to determine the correct assignment of each code is a fantasy. Period!
However, if we had some insight into what the cipher actually contains that might offer a little help, but we don't. As far as we know it might contain absolutely nothing, or it could simply be a confession from the author, or a clear text that was simply designed to lead yet another goose chase, etc. A second example would be that the codes are all just random entries with no intended value attached to them at all other then the author's own personal preference in their arrangement, which in itself could lead to existing "patterns" that in reality are totally meaningless.
Could be that only a few codes in the entire cipher contain any real value, or that several meaningless codes have been inserted, etc., etc., etc. Will patterns still exist? Yes, they will, but are they meaningful? Not very likely.
This is why ciphers are used, and this is also why, historically speaking, that ciphers of completely unknown meaning and/or origin with no known starting point still remain undecided today. The possibilities are unlimited in this type of complete unknowns.
To date, we still don't know anything of value about the narration, the people and details it portrays, the author, or in general, the source or the true nature of the tale. And last, if those ciphers actually "did" contain a clear text then we have absolutely no way to know what type of cipher they might have actually been. So all of these complete unknowns allow for us to make them whatever we want or believe them to be. Sad but all-too true.
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