Experiment 142
F1.1 Beaufort 26, rerun alone after 0141 crashed (its two-alphabet part ran out of time while drawing fitting shuffles, and a text with no finished search broke the summary; no result survived). Same test as 0141's first part: 0140 found design 2 has power at 26 (5 of 6 planted texts beat all 6 of their own copies), so K4 runs against 12 shuffles of itself that fit at 26.
What the method does with the 24 known letters.
The search that tells planted English from its own scrambled letters runs on the carved textthe carved letters The 97 letters cut into the copper at the CIA, shown at the top of every experiment page. for the last undecided case of one scrambled alphabet: a 26-letter key, where the known lettersthe known letters Sanborn has confirmed that positions 22 to 34 of the message read EASTNORTHEAST and positions 64 to 74 read BERLINCLOCK. give only one check. The carved text is compared with scrambled copies of itself; if it were English enciphered this way it would usually come first.
Words in the margin are defined on the glossary page.
The carved letters go in at the top; the reading comes out at the bottom.
At length 26 the known letters give one check, yet design 2 noticed planted English against its own letters 5 times in 6 (0140). So K4 runs against scrambled copies of itself here too.
12 shuffles of K4 that still fit at 26; the same search on all 13. K4 scores -4.99, copies -5.05 to -4.69.
K4 ranks 12 of 13: the Beaufort-26 cell is closed at the measured strength. With 0140, one scrambled alphabet on both sides with no move is closed at every key length.
Laid out as the copper carries K4: OBKR ends the line that finishes K3, then three lines of 31. Left, as carved, the 24 known places in accent. Right, the candidate: a known place it gets right is an accent cell, one it misses is outlined. This is the candidate with most known letters right; none passed every gate.
in: the copper, always the same
OBKR ends the line that finishes K3, then three lines of 31
out: the candidate
checked: the known letters in place, and the reading turns back into the copper
The loss of the best candidate, part by part. Zero is solved.
| Known letters missed | 0 of 24, ten points each | 0.00 |
| English | the 73 free letters score -5.23; English text scores -3.6 | 1.63 |
| Key | 213 bits to write it down (key words are cheap, arbitrary letters 4.7 bits each); each 60 beyond 60 costs a point | 2.54 |
| Loss | of 240, the worst possible | 4.17 1.7% |
Redo the method on a few letters with pencil and paper.
The same steps run by the code on the real letters.
key length 23, Beaufort form: K4 in rows of 23; each column is one key slot
O B K R U O X O G H U L B S O L I F B B W F L
R V Q Q P R N G K S S O T W T Q S J Q S S E K
Z Z W A T J K L U D I A W I N F B N Y P V T T
M Z F P K W G D K Z X T J C D I G K U H U A U
E K C A R
the seven checks every move keeps (place(carved) + place(known) equal within a column):
column 0: R+S (24) = M+C (70)
column 1: V+T (25) = Z+L (71)
column 2: Q+N (26) = F+O (72)
column 3: Q+O (27) = P+C (73)
column 4: P+R (28) = K+K (74)
column 21: F+E (22) = T+I (68)
column 22: L+A (23) = T+N (69)
best alphabet on K4: UTVXRSWEPNHFLZDAOQBJICKGYM
key values: [7, 12, 5, 19, 4, 11, 10, 6, 23, 15, 7, 1, 5, 12, 14, 21, 10, 20, 25, 1, 3, 18, 1, 9, 3, 0]
place 22: carved F at 11, key 18: 18 - 11 = 7 -> E
place 64: carved N at 9, key 1: 1 - 9 = 18 -> B
Family, key space, the constraint under test, and the clues it reads.
C27(c), C1(b). One unknown alphabet on both sides, Beaufort form x(c_i) + x(p_i) = k[i mod 26], 1 check (0119). Search: 0139's compiled parallel tempering in the set where the check holds, 10 runs x 16 replicas x 625 rounds x 1,000 moves per text, full-text quadgram mean. K4 vs 12 shuffles of K4 fitting at 26 (0119's decider, seed 142). Rule fixed before the run: K4 above all 12 stops the queue for a replication; otherwise the cell closes sampled at the measured power (5 of 6 at 6 copies, 0140).
Written before the run; the result decides it.
K4 inside its copies (rank 2-13); the Beaufort-26 cell closes sampled at power about 0.8. No reading.
The harness's record: candidates, gates, loss, and the negative result this experiment leaves behind.
All 1 candidates, lowest loss first.
Beaufort form, one alphabet UTVXRSWEPNHFLZDAOQBJICKGYM on both sides, key length 26
L26: K4 -4.990, rank 12 of 13 (-5.051 to -4.688); stop False.
What was searched, as the harness recorded it.
QINARCEOUSEAZEYNONENGEASTNORTHEASTEDTUDECRSABSOSCIVEFUSSHKRLDRABERLINCLOCKCLARINRUNGONTAGTOLEMASCUTVXRSWEPNHFLZDAOQBJICKGYMHow this experiment sits among the others is on the lineage page; its family's open hypotheses are on the families page.