Research notebookNotebook updated 12 Oct 2026
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Read each session in full, including its sources, controls, negative results and limits.

73
Opening-section image reading and its limits

No master correction established: 729 runes retain four repeats and five singleton types. The rough first pass and master-guided review remain visible, with no independent confirmation or new plaintext.

No new plaintext
72
Do the one-rune groups act like structural markers?

Seven mapped features show no clear concentration; 61 singletons outside red text lack those features and still span 26 symbols. Placement controls pass, with no new plaintext.

No new plaintext
71
Full state alphabets expose a letter frequency gap

The three frozen rules fail the new full-alphabet screen; no small-bank 25–29-type case passes the references. Fifteen controls recover, while smaller and restricted alphabets remain open.

No new plaintext
70
A repeat channel narrows section-specific table banks

A specified channel requires five or six tables under the reference screens; four later singleton contradictions and six common-E recovery controls distinguish capacity from plaintext.

No new plaintext
69
Compact context switches and the singleton mass screen

94,192 selectors require at least 20 shared tables for the A/I screen, or ten with O; 12 recovery controls pass, while independent section tables remain open.

No new plaintext
68
Homophonic decoding and the singleton capacity limit

A shared fixed table forces 96.58% into A/I and at most three output runes; exact exception budgets, four recovery controls and a context-dependent counterexample record the limits.

No new plaintext
67
Input relabeling and the recency-cipher frequency gap

All 812 affine input keys and 4,096 sampled permutations stay below the frequency screen; 16 controls pass, with frozen continuations and equivalence recorded.

No new plaintext
66
Recency ciphers without guessing the starting alphabet

Arbitrary starting and final permutations face structural frequency bounds; 16 recovery controls pass, with reset and input-key gaps retained.

No new plaintext
65
Berkeley comparison expanded through 2014

28 distinct verified bodies and a separate solved-text check find no distinctive wording link; three clearer signed copies recovered.

Source audit
64
Berkeley remailer wording and verified 3301 messages

22 relay posts, 21 contemporary comparisons and ten verified signed blocks yield no distinctive wording link.

Source audit
63
What the punctuation corrections actually change

Only clause-reset branches change in the reviewed tests; bounded replays alter rankings and continuations but recover no plaintext.

No new plaintext
62
Boundary corrections meet known-solution controls

A derived map retains 406 audited marks; five fixed counter policies fail applicable known controls, while the continuous solutions reproduce exactly.

No new plaintext
61
Does the neighboring glyph explain the three-dot marks?

Seventeen solved images screened; identical AE glyphs occur beside both punctuation forms, and another separator-class discrepancy is recorded.

No new plaintext
60
Where do the small three-dot marks recur?

All 58 pages screened: six text locations, one additional separator-label discrepancy, and a known solution that continues across an inline three-dot mark.

No new plaintext
59
Which separator shapes are actually on the page?

All 355 dot groups on six pages audited; an expected-position overlap test supports recording the page-46 mark as three dots, with its role unresolved.

No new plaintext
58
Does the repeat deficit survive an image-first reading?

Six source pages retain 11 repeated pairs against 54.19 expected; 24 fresh-reading corrections and one separator-class discrepancy are documented.

No new plaintext
57
Do the extra headings mark a statistical change?

Five internal red headings show no unusual local frequency shift against 4,999 reference placements; a strong constructed change is detected.

No new plaintext
56
Does the tree layout repeat elsewhere?

All 58 LP2 pages screened; seven comparison transitions yield no exact match, and known heading lengths limit the instruction analogy.

No new plaintext
55
The tree passage and its actual boundaries

Seven source pages mapped; 378 delimiter groups distinguish headings, passage endings and the larger section boundary.

No new plaintext
54
A new approach: reconstruct the page structure

Known-solution comparison and a 32-mark event ledger separate layout evidence from letter evidence; arithmetic sweeps are paused.

No new plaintext
53
The 42-position exception hits a frequency limit

Even arbitrary phase substitutions cap every output rune at 7.31%, versus a 12.63% peak in the pooled solved sample.

No new plaintext
52
Shared reset states face singleton contradictions

None of 88 phrase-aligned schedules passes across the corpus; a section-local exception fails as a simple additive key.

No new plaintext
51
The filter fits neighboring repeats, but misses the phrase

Across 9,998 simulated books, word-aligned phrase recurrence remains rare under the ideal random-key filter.

No new plaintext
50
Eight key conventions pass longer controls

Sixteen 600-rune controls pass; 1,024 real prefix decodes yield no coherent continuation.

No new plaintext
49
Skipped key positions can hide a correct key

Six constructed messages recovered exactly; a 16-seed real-text screen found no coherent continuation.

No new plaintext
48
Repeat positions constrain words without identifying a letter

Twenty short words require five patterns; an apparent O match depends on a small vocabulary and is not a decipherment.

No new plaintext
47
A compact nonlinear multiplier remains too flat

All 636,608 settings are covered by 784 histograms; recovery controls pass, but the real-text frequency screen yields no candidate.

No new plaintext
46
More memory adds capacity, not a predictive lead

Arbitrary two-rune context tables escape the frequency ceiling, but fitted concentration fails to transfer and random comparisons look similar.

No new plaintext
45
Simple schedules need too many singleton exceptions

At least 46 of 83 singletons must violate A/I; longer-word rankings remain poor and shuffled fits are comparable.

No new plaintext
44
Simple singleton schedules fail before validation

Five short schedule families in both directions fit no training set; ten constructed controls recover, with no new plaintext.

No new plaintext
43
All revised singleton boundaries checked

The remaining 68 source-image checks find no further correction; the inventory remains 83 tokens spanning 28 symbols.

No new plaintext
42
Image audit corrects apostrophe splitting

Three suffixes were counted as words. The revised inventory has 83 one-rune tokens representing 28 runes; recalculated frequency and repetition results remain negative.

No new plaintext
41
Whole-word repetition challenges fixed word ciphers

Length-matched comparisons challenge fixed word ciphers; Session 42 corrects apostrophe splitting and retains the main result.

No new plaintext
40
Word resets do not rescue linear feedback

Every fixed reset state included: peak rune frequency reaches at most 4.44%, or 6.02% with separate section keys; controls and exact witnesses pass.

No new plaintext
39
Two-rune linear feedback remains too flat

All coefficient settings cap rune frequency at 4.18% with a shared key, or 5.40% with separate section keys; both recovery controls pass.

No new plaintext
38
OutGuess crashes explained and retested

A zero-step iterator caused all 41 crashes; guarded checks preserve known outputs and recover no new payload.

No new plaintext
37
JPEG structure and controlled steganography checks

All 75 files audited; known appended material recovered, while OutGuess crashes leave 39 LP2 checks unresolved.

No new plaintext
36
Word-length fingerprints and self-quotation

All 17 solved text pages compared with the unsolved corpus; two seven-word length matches are ordinary under both randomized comparisons.

No new plaintext
35
Previous-plaintext feedback fails continuation

5,274,752 real-text settings searched; three constructed keys recover exactly, but the real candidates produce no coherent continuation.

No new plaintext
34
Short cycles do not close the frequency gap

Six two- and three-position variants cap output frequency at 7.07%; controls pass and random partitions show comparable loosening of the bound.

No new plaintext
33
Fixed feedback hits a frequency barrier

An exact bound limits every output rune to 5.53% under one shared fixed rule; arbitrary rune ordering cannot match the solved LP benchmark.

No new plaintext
32
The repeated phrase survives the image audit

Two three-rune words confirmed on both images; 13-dot marks occupy different positions, with no matching lead-in or new plaintext.

No new plaintext
31
Do the rare doubles occur in bursts?

Three fixed spacing checks find ordinary short gaps, long empty stretches and overlap counts; no new trigger or key.

No new plaintext
30
Do the rare doubles follow a repeating counter?

1,050 phase comparisons across periods 3–32 find no convincing shared cycle after full-family correction.

No new plaintext
29
Rune frequencies and the repeat shortage

86 repeats versus 445 expected with exact inventories; approximate section comparison finds no clear difference in suppression strength.

No new plaintext
28
Religious sources and textual fingerprints

Thomas, Dhammapada, Hermeticum I and Crowley: wording scan and source-order review identify no new key.

No new plaintext
27
Where do the rare doubles occur?

All 86 events mapped; 21 layout features show no clear concentration after conditional comparison.

No new plaintext
26
Do successor preferences predict other text?

Three learned transition models fail to improve prediction; the repeat shortage remains the clearer constraint.

No new plaintext
25
What suppresses repeated neighbors?

Distance, boundary and pairing diagnostics narrow simple mechanisms; no cipher identified.

No new plaintext
24
Distinctive wording or shared themes?

34 supplied book pages compared with solved LP: no four-token match, and no new cipher instruction.

No new plaintext
23
Snow Crash passages and three candidate keys

306 fixed settings, 18 recovery controls and selected phrase checks; no verified plaintext.

No new plaintext
22
Stephenson, Cryptonomicon and Pontifex

Six literary comparisons, three reproduced Solitaire examples and a structural limit; full-novel wording remains untested.

No new plaintext
21
Science fiction and alien languages

Twelve candidates from the 1920s onward; Snow Crash and Omnilingual suggest specific comparisons, without an attribution.

No new plaintext
20
What the marks do on solved pages

Thirty measured marks across 13 solved pages; 10-dot marks are not unique list delimiters.

No new plaintext
19
Do the red mark types change the counter?

Seven fixed counter rules passed 21 constructed controls; no readable continuation in the real text.

No new plaintext
18
Colored punctuation, the tree and negative space

Two 10-dot marks bracket the list; source-pixel inversion and whitespace views reveal no verified glyph.

No new plaintext
17
Numbered items and shared cipher restarts

Five-item boundary audit, repetition check and numerical tests with cross-item validation.

No new plaintext
16
Four inscriptions and the reversal hypothesis

Corrected motif count, exact text boundaries and 15 fixed reading-order tests.

No new plaintext
15
Literary map and fixed-key probe

Emerson, Blake and Crowley; source order audit and 11,616 key settings.

No new plaintext
14
Do word boundaries organize the numbers?

Six schedule families and a rotation comparison found no positive result.

No new plaintext
13
Instructions and literary sources

Blake parallels and direct interior-extraction tests.

No new plaintext
12
Reconstructing the 2012 book cipher

The known Agrippa address reproduced from an archived source edition.

No new plaintext
11
Testing the Agrippa algorithm

Published decoder independently reproduced; byte-block transfer failed.

No new plaintext
10
Cyberpunk, cypherpunks and Bitcoin

Documented Gibson connection; no established Bitcoin identity link.

Source audit
09
Cuneiform and ancient imagery

The 1033 / 3301 reading and its limits; numerical-key experiments.

No new plaintext
08
Historical scripts and languages

Rune names, Old English and Latin benchmarks, with no language identification.

No new plaintext
07
The danger of overfitting

A short fitted stream failed recovery and validation checks.

No new plaintext
06
A repeated phrase as a constraint

Unknown periodic keys tested against the repeated six-rune ciphertext phrase.

No new plaintext
05
Changing alphabets

Community comparison and tests of exclusion and changing-alphabet rules.

No new plaintext
04
Words, repetition and feedback

Word boundaries, the adjacent-repeat deficit, and linear feedback hypotheses.

No new plaintext
03
Number squares and combined keys

Prime and Fibonacci square reconstruction, followed by bounded key tests.

No new plaintext
02
Boundaries and skipped symbols

Section resets, selective F exceptions and the verified base-60 byte block.

No new plaintext
01
Arithmetic and the first controls

Known solution reproduced; arithmetic, affine and period searches found no new plaintext.

No new plaintext