by Michael Cole | Jul 30, 2012 | Articles, Ciphers
The other day, I noticed a rather unusual spike in traffic to this website. After digging around a bit, I determined that the primary reason for the spike was a renewed interest in Corey Starliper’s clearly invalid solution to the Zodiac Killer’s 340...
by Michael Cole | Jul 23, 2012 | Around the Web, Zodiac Crime Scenes
The Associated Press decided to do a short profile of Vallejo, California which appeared in a number of newspapers over the last couple of days. In predictably pleasant form, the article’s “Claim to Fame” section starts out by noting that Vallejo...
by Michael Cole | Jun 6, 2012 | Articles, Ciphers, Internet
This post will serve as a living document that tracks the ongoing changes which I make to the Zodiac Killer Cipher Generator. June 6, 2012 Incorporated David Bau’s Math.seedrandom() since, apparently, Math.random() is not seedable by default. I exposed the seed,...
by Michael Cole | Jun 4, 2012 | Articles, Ciphers, Internet
Over the years, Dave Oranchak has done some great research into the Zodiac Killer’s ciphers. He’s created two popular cipher analysis web applications (webtoy and cryptoscope) and collected a wealth of information related to the ciphers of the Zodiac...
by Michael Cole | Jun 3, 2012 | Articles, Ciphers, Internet
Back in the 2007 time frame, I was writing a cipher-solving program called CipherExplorer. The program works reasonably well. It’s capable of solving the Zodiac Killer’s 408 cipher and other homophonic substitution ciphers comparable to the apparent...
