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Methods Cryptanalysis (Zodiac-340 diagnostics)Periodicity, transposition and isomorph battery

Method · cryptanalysis (Zodiac-340 diagnostics)

Periodicity, transposition and isomorph battery

Cryptanalysis (zodiac-340 diagnostics)Version 1.0Licence MIT6 runsUsed on 1 mystery

Questions it answers

Is it a cipher of a known language?

Code Python

Download module (.py)t_periodicity.pyView source

Runs and results 6 runs

Run	Mystery	Measured	Result	Against	Date
RUN-033	Voynich	Glyph-disjoint isomorph pairs at same line position / anywhere	8044/313100	Words-in-lines shuffle 9162/341748	22 Oct
RUN-032	Voynich	Coincidence between consecutive lines at same position	0.104	Random line pairs 0.0964 · words-in-lines shuffle 0.1026	22 Oct
RUN-031	Voynich	Period-bigram peak (period, count) in text vs within-word shuffle	p=2 176496 (median 176178)	Shuffle p=2 176299 (median 176180)	22 Oct
RUN-016	Voynich	Glyph-disjoint isomorph pairs at same line position / anywhere	13547/546226	Words-in-lines shuffle 14969/628274	22 Oct
RUN-015	Voynich	Coincidence between consecutive lines at same position	0.1049	Random line pairs 0.0943 · words-in-lines shuffle 0.0984	22 Oct
RUN-014	Voynich	Period-bigram peak (period, count) in text vs within-word shuffle	p=2 189579 (median 189510)	Shuffle p=2 203945 (median 203922)	22 Oct

Applied to

Voynich Manuscript

Voynich Manuscript

2 datasetsGC2a transcription, ZL3b transcription