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 Kelleher | Jul 19, 2012 | Articles, Media, Zodiac Investigation
Broad public interest in the Zodiac case has dwindled significantly over the past few years and morphed into a pattern of intermittent instances of sensational claims and media reports. This is mostly due to uninformed Internet speculation and, in many cases,...
by Michael Kelleher | Jun 23, 2012 | Articles, Books
I’ve finally had an opportunity to read Lyndon Lafferty’s book, cover to cover. In a nutshell, it just doesn’t work for me. He has not presented any evidence that works to my satisfaction and, therefore, I cannot recommend it to anyone interested in...
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...
