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*[http://www.zodiackillersite.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=2435 Jarlve's tests]
 
*[http://www.zodiackillersite.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=2435 Jarlve's tests]
 
**At the above link, Jarlve has documented the following variations: Cardan grille variant, stacked directional transformations, spirals, double spirals, column flips, double directional transformations, rail fence, row flips, and row flips in a 20 by 17 grid.
 
**At the above link, Jarlve has documented the following variations: Cardan grille variant, stacked directional transformations, spirals, double spirals, column flips, double directional transformations, rail fence, row flips, and row flips in a 20 by 17 grid.
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*[https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xlsjup1en6evq2o/AABHmixWHW9rdbWupupSC87sa?dl=0 Largo's transposition ideas]
  
 
== Halloween Card ==
 
== Halloween Card ==
 
* Does the Halloween Card, mailed by the killer a year after the 340 cipher, contain clues about the 340?
 
* Does the Halloween Card, mailed by the killer a year after the 340 cipher, contain clues about the 340?
 
**[http://www.kirps.com/web/main/resources/various/zodiac340/ Jos Kirps' article about interesting coincidences between the Halloween card and the 340 cipher]
 
**[http://www.kirps.com/web/main/resources/various/zodiac340/ Jos Kirps' article about interesting coincidences between the Halloween card and the 340 cipher]

Revision as of 02:57, 21 June 2016

Zodiac, the serial killer who terrorized Northern California in the late 1960s, sent four ciphers to local newspapers. The first cipher was separated into three different parts and each part was sent to Vallejo Times-Herald, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the San Francisco Examiner. The combination of all three parts formed a 408-letter cipher, which was decrypted one week after it was received. Zodiac also sent a 340-letter cipher, mailed on a card on November 8 1969, that remains unsolved to this day.

Articles and information about the 340 cipher

High-resolution scan of the 340-character cipher
Cipher as it appeared in the SF Chronicle on Nov 13, 1969 (Credit: Deborah Silva, who posts as Seagull on the Zodiac forums)

Homophone sequences

The "Pivots"

Transpositions and other possible variations

Is the 340 cipher unsolved because it is not a simple homophonic substitution cipher like the 408 cipher? Here is a collection of considered possibilities:

Halloween Card