Z-32 cipher
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The Z-32 cipher is one of the Zodiac Killer’s short, still-unsolved coded messages, believed to contain a clue to the location of a bomb or crime scene.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Z-32 cipher canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14877505 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Z-32 cipher Context triple: [Zodiac Killer, notableCipher, Z-32 cipher]
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A.
Z-13 cipher
The Z-13 cipher is one of the Zodiac Killer’s shortest and most infamous unsolved cryptograms, consisting of just 13 characters that have fueled decades of speculation about its hidden message.
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B.
Serpent cipher
Serpent cipher is a symmetric-key block cipher and former AES finalist known for its strong security margin and conservative design based on a substitution–permutation network structure.
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C.
Tunny cipher
The Tunny cipher was a high-level German teleprinter encryption system used during World War II for strategic communications, whose interception and decryption at Bletchley Park significantly aided Allied codebreaking efforts.
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D.
Lucifer cipher
The Lucifer cipher is an early block cipher developed at IBM by Horst Feistel that served as a foundational design precursor to the Data Encryption Standard (DES).
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E.
Spritz cipher
Spritz cipher is a modern stream cipher and hash function designed by Ronald Rivest and Jacob Schuldt as a more secure and flexible successor to RC4.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Z-32 cipher Target entity description: The Z-32 cipher is one of the Zodiac Killer’s short, still-unsolved coded messages, believed to contain a clue to the location of a bomb or crime scene.
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A.
Z-13 cipher
The Z-13 cipher is one of the Zodiac Killer’s shortest and most infamous unsolved cryptograms, consisting of just 13 characters that have fueled decades of speculation about its hidden message.
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B.
Serpent cipher
Serpent cipher is a symmetric-key block cipher and former AES finalist known for its strong security margin and conservative design based on a substitution–permutation network structure.
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C.
Tunny cipher
The Tunny cipher was a high-level German teleprinter encryption system used during World War II for strategic communications, whose interception and decryption at Bletchley Park significantly aided Allied codebreaking efforts.
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D.
Lucifer cipher
The Lucifer cipher is an early block cipher developed at IBM by Horst Feistel that served as a foundational design precursor to the Data Encryption Standard (DES).
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E.
Spritz cipher
Spritz cipher is a modern stream cipher and hash function designed by Ronald Rivest and Jacob Schuldt as a more secure and flexible successor to RC4.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.