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The Solution of the Zodiac Killer's 340-Character Cipher
David Oranchak, Sam Blake, Jarl Van Eycke, 2024. arXiv:2403.17350 [cs.AI], 26 March 2024.
The solvers' 62-page account: history of all four ciphers, the Hardens' Z408 solution, fifty years of attempts on Z340, the period-19 statistics, the 2020 batch of transposition variants, the (1,2)-decimation, the corrections for row 15 and LIFE IS, the final key and plaintext, the FBI's two statements of 11 December 2020, and the status of Z13, Z32 and the Z408 tail.
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Oranchak, D., Blake, S., & Van Eycke, J. (2024). The Solution of the Zodiac Killer's 340-Character Cipher. arXiv:2403.17350 [cs.AI], 26 March 2024. https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17350
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