{"id":374,"date":"2007-12-07T07:44:18","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T12:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/?p=374"},"modified":"2007-12-07T07:44:18","modified_gmt":"2007-12-07T12:44:18","slug":"zodiac-webtoy-another-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/?p=374","title":{"rendered":"Zodiac webtoy: Another update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finally made some more updates to the <a href=\"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/zodiac\/webtoy\">Zodiac webtoy<\/a>!  The biggest change is the addition of simple letter-frequency statistics.<\/p>\n<p><center style=\"width: 505px; margin-left: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/zodiac\/webtoy\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: thin solid #999\" src=\"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/zodiac-ovaltine-500px.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<i>Remember when Ralphie cracked the &#8220;secret code&#8221; in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0085334\/\">A Christmas Story<\/a>?<\/i><br \/>\n<i>Ralphie: [Reading his decoding]: &#8220;Be&#8230; sure&#8230; to&#8230; drink&#8230; your&#8230; Ovaltine. Ovaltine? A crummy commercial?!? Son of a bitch!!&#8221;<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Here is the list of noteworthy changes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Added frequency tabulations for symbols, decoded plaintext letters, and expected letter frequencies (as specified <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Letter_frequencies#Relative_frequencies_of_letters_in_the_English_language\">here<\/a>).  Frequency analysis of this sort might be useful to cracking the cipher.  Eventually, I would like to include more n-gram statistics (occurrences of letter combinations of length n) to make this more useful.\n<\/li>\n<li>Added the 408 cipher, which has a known (and creepy) solution.  Click on the &#8220;Switch to 408 cipher&#8221; link to see it.  The known solution link is below the 408 cipher (it is labeled &#8220;The correct one&#8221; next to &#8220;Interesting decoders&#8221;).<\/li>\n<li>Fixed some formatting bugs that were causing the columns of the cipher grid to get squashed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The webtoy seems to be getting much slower in Internet Explorer 6.  I&#8217;ve not tested it in Internet Explorer 7.  But it works pretty well in Firefox and Safari.  I am afraid of all the horrible, horrible JavaScript code that I wrote &#8211; Please let me know of any problems you find!  If you find the new version to be too crappy, you can still use the old version by <a href=\"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/zodiac\/webtoy\/old-version\/index.html\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finally made some more updates to the Zodiac webtoy! The biggest change is the addition of simple letter-frequency statistics. Remember when Ralphie cracked the &#8220;secret code&#8221; in A Christmas Story? Ralphie: [Reading his decoding]: &#8220;Be&#8230; sure&#8230; to&#8230; drink&#8230; your&#8230; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/?p=374\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,35,36,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-meaningless","category-tech","category-toys","category-zodiac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}