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Bayesian Inference for Zodiac and Other Homophonic Ciphers

Sujith Ravi, Kevin Knight, 2011. Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies.

Solves homophonic substitution ciphers, including the Zodiac-408, by Bayesian inference with a character language model of the plaintext.

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What it's used for here

The cryptanalysis survey opens its list of homophonic cipher solvers with this method.

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Cryptanalysis, inductive methods
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Ravi, S., & Knight, K. (2011). Bayesian Inference for Zodiac and Other Homophonic Ciphers. Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. https://aclanthology.org/P11-1025/
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