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> IN PARADICE DEATH Remember: reading the deciphered ramblings of a deranged psychopath is obviously going to have misspellings and weird idiosyncratic odditie
by blindm 6y ago
> IN PARADICE DEATH
Remember: reading the deciphered ramblings of a deranged psychopath is obviously going to have misspellings and weird idiosyncratic oddities in them.
My take is (if the killer was in any way rational) is that she knew the plaintext would be unraveled at some stage. If not by quantum computers, then a team of dedicated sleuths who know how to program. So yes: the misspellings could be deliberate.
- IshKebab 6y agoShe?
- m000 6y agoThat's a generic she [1]. In recent years the generic she is becoming more rare, with people usually preferring the singular they [2]. Still, somehow the generic she seems to remain popular when discussing crypto-related topics. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_neutrality_in_languages_with_gendered_third-person_pronouns#Generic_she https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_neutrality_in_languages... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
- a1369209993 6y ago> somehow the generic she seems to remain popular when discussing crypto-related topics. It's (in most cases) not generic, it's a specific pronoun for Alice and/or Eve. (Bob is, of course, "he".)
- m000 6y agoThat's probably the source of the continuing use of generic she in crypto. But e.g. in crypto papers, the use often extends beyond the examples involving Alice, Eve and Mallory.
- IshKebab 6y agoBut the Zodiac killer is known to be a man...
- xref 6y agoI doubt the killer was thinking about quantum computers or teams of programmers unmasking them back in the 1960s. Heck at that time it still wasn’t public that the allies cracked Enigma/Purple during WWII in the 1940s
- jonny_eh 6y agoWitnesses definitely described the killer as a man.