Paths to Decipherment

[bi3mw]

1)A crib or more likely what Nick Pelling calls a block-paradigm.

I would tend to assume that a crib is most likely to lead to the solution. I don't know Nick's work on this and would use the following simple definition:

In cryptology, a crib is a plaintext phrase that the codebreaker knows, suspects or guesses occurs in a ciphertext in encrypted form.

You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is a failed and admittedly somewhat clumsy attempt in this direction. In any case, it is a search for a needle in a haystack.