Benford's law in the Beale ciphers

Viktor Wase, 2020. Cryptologia 45(3): 282-286.

Tests the digit distributions of the three ciphers against Benford's law as a check on whether they were produced by a genuine book-cipher process.

Beale ciphersArticledoi: 10.1080/01611194.2020.1821409Checked against the original0

What it's used for here

One of the recent statistical tests; its result should be read from the paper itself.

Cited by on this site 2 records

Cipher 1 or 3 is genuine but uses a key text no one has tried, or a lost private document.

Answer

ANS

The Beale ciphers

The mystery article

MYS

Cite it

Wase, V. (2020). Benford's law in the Beale ciphers. Cryptologia 45(3): 282-286. https://doi.org/10.1080/01611194.2020.1821409

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Wase, Viktor. “Benford's law in the Beale ciphers.” Cryptologia 45(3): 282-286 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1080/01611194.2020.1821409.