Criminology
Check out “Criminology”, a fantastic podcast about the Zodiac Killer. I’m honored to be featured in Episode 11, in which we dissect the ciphers in more detail: http://criminology.libsyn.com/ep11-zodiac-ciphers-conversation Thanks, Morf and Mike Ferguson for inviting me to be a part…
Criminal codes and ciphers
A friend of mine teaches a Network Security course at a local community college and he invited me to give a talk about criminal codes and ciphers. Here is the video of the talk: Topics include the Unabomber, BTK Killer,…
Hands on Z408
Tom Voigt managed to gain access to the evidence room (presumably at SFPD) to have a closer look one of the three parts of the original Z408 cipher: He says that inspecting the back of the paper reveals Zodiac used…
2017 Symposium on Cryptologic History
Good news: My presentation proposal for this year’s crypto symposium was accepted! Title: The Unsolved Zodiac 340 Cipher: Features or Phantoms? Abstract: The Zodiac Killer’s first cipher was a simple substitution cipher that was quickly solved by amateur codebreakers. But…
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