{"id":12363,"date":"2024-11-25T20:57:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T03:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=12363"},"modified":"2024-09-30T21:07:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T04:07:20","slug":"cracking-the-final-zodiac-cipher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=12363","title":{"rendered":"Cracking the final Zodiac cipher"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@doranchak\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@doranchak\">David Oranchak<\/a> post a video of how a 3-person international team of unlikely codebreakers (David, a warehouse operator in Belgium, and an applied mathematician) made the discovery that solved the Zodiac killer&#8217;s 340-character cipher. Cool points for the fact they used an old school hill climbing cipher program called <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/doranchak\/azdecrypt\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/github.com\/doranchak\/azdecrypt\">AZDecrypt<\/a> that was written in BASIC to solve Zodiac&#8217;s cipher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-1oQLPRE21o?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Oranchak post a video of how a 3-person international team of unlikely codebreakers (David, a warehouse operator in Belgium, and an applied mathematician) made the discovery that solved the Zodiac killer&#8217;s 340-character cipher. Cool points for the fact they used an old school hill climbing cipher program called AZDecrypt that was written in BASIC to solve Zodiac&#8217;s cipher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-3dp","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12365,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12363\/revisions\/12365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}