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by Provoni
Aug 19, 2023 7:03
Forum: Projects
Topic: AZdecrypt 1.24
Replies: 26
Views: 16391

Re: AZdecrypt 1.23

Hey ArchOptic, Sorry for the late reply. If you are using 1.23 go to AZdecrypt/N-grams/Languages/, there should be about all languages you need. Usually higher n-grams are much more powerful. Here are Italian 6-grams for you to download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FP7XWCQM-sskuVffGwGMDi4npl0xw...
by Provoni
Aug 13, 2023 7:03
Forum: Community Discussion
Topic: Anyone still here from the old QB45 days?
Replies: 28
Views: 11050

Re: Anyone still here from the old QB45 days?

As an 80's kid, in the early 90's my dad bought our first computer, an AST Bravo 386SX 20Mhz 2MB RAM and 80MB HD. It came with MS-DOS, I think a version before 6.22 and Windows 3.0. I spent ages trying to uncover its secrets, learning that .exe's were executable programs, I found Qbasic.exe. Its use...
by Provoni
Jul 28, 2023 19:13
Forum: Windows
Topic: Windows: Enhanced Sleep
Replies: 7
Views: 1937

Re: Windows: Enhanced Sleep

This is great, thanks deltarho, getting a 4% to 5% performance increase in my multi-threaded programs where the idle time is catched with sleep! Are you using 'Sleep' in a test loop of a thread to wait for other thread(s) (or the main thread) ? If so, the most powerful is to use the conditional var...
by Provoni
Jul 28, 2023 8:48
Forum: Windows
Topic: Windows: Enhanced Sleep
Replies: 7
Views: 1937

Re: Windows: Enhanced Sleep

This is great, thanks deltarho, getting a 4% to 5% performance increase in my multi-threaded programs where the idle time is catched with sleep!
by Provoni
Jul 27, 2023 18:45
Forum: General
Topic: FreeBasic's Timer
Replies: 253
Views: 14854

Re: FreeBasic's Timer

For the 'regulateLite()' regulating function, see now "Lite regulation" function ('regulateLite()') to be integrated into user loop for FPS control . Header posts completed . Thanks for your work on this fxm. I'm wondering if your code may be of worth in my multi-threaded programs. I usua...
by Provoni
Jun 27, 2023 20:15
Forum: Community Discussion
Topic: Freebasic 1.20.0 Development
Replies: 227
Views: 20551

Re: Freebasic 1.20.0 Development

I often allow myself to be distracted by a variety of challenges and personal interests, so please, some leniency in the previous claim. Sure! What do you dabble in? This question rolled around in my brain for a while. Thanks. As far as freebasic goes, nothing really worth mentioning because if I g...
by Provoni
Jun 12, 2023 19:14
Forum: Community Discussion
Topic: Freebasic 1.20.0 Development
Replies: 227
Views: 20551

Re: Freebasic 1.20.0 Development

Thank you allot coderJeff for all the work you've put in. Without FreeBASIC, my project probably would not exist: https://github.com/doranchak/azdecrypt https://www.freebasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23188 I often allow myself to be distracted by a variety of challenges and personal interests, so p...
by Provoni
May 22, 2023 13:53
Forum: Community Discussion
Topic: FreeBASIC 1.10.1 Release Discussion
Replies: 154
Views: 27495

Re: FreeBASIC 1.10.0 Development

fxm, sounds good, let's come back to it. For now I just want to push ahead and get a release done before we start working on whatever the next thing is. Because of course there's lots of things we could keep working on: bug fixes, testing out the new features, investigating reports from the forum (...
by Provoni
May 09, 2023 9:03
Forum: Community Discussion
Topic: Chatting with AI
Replies: 91
Views: 12754

Re: Chatting with AI

I wouldn't trust it for critical tasks, unless there's another component that's able to test the output. I agree. The only thing that you can do is let a human panel verify every output but that defeats the purpose. In time, and that may be soon, we may be able to trust it with critical tasks. One ...
by Provoni
Apr 27, 2023 18:40
Forum: Projects
Topic: AZdecrypt 1.24
Replies: 26
Views: 16391

Re: AZdecrypt 1.23

Hey CdnCoder. Sorry for the late reply. Select Simple Transposition (or Columnar Transposition) -> Solve (dialogue box opens, but there is no "OK" button to lock in my selections; I can only close it with the X) I cannot figure out how to launch something like Simple Transposition or Colum...
by Provoni
Apr 17, 2023 15:05
Forum: General
Topic: Cryptanalysis
Replies: 76
Views: 6543

Re: Cryptanalysis

Optimization by ChatGPT 4.0, if going for many rounds it's faster: Sub EncDec(ByRef message As String, ByVal seed As ULongInt, ByVal rounds As ULong, ByVal flag As Long) Dim As ULong k = Len(message), i, j For i = 1 To rounds * k j = (i - 1) Mod k message[j] = Asc(message, j + 1) + KnuthRange(seed) ...
by Provoni
Apr 13, 2023 7:46
Forum: Projects
Topic: AZdecrypt 1.24
Replies: 26
Views: 16391

Re: AZdecrypt 1.22

AZdecrypt 1.23 released: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zenlhOqsPs6s7XKMdk9IhL7IK6nO7vUQ/view?usp=share_link New features: - Reduced per thread memory usage by 3/4. - Adapative sleep times for multi-threading. This should result in a small speed gain for most solvers and a few big gains here and ...
by Provoni
Apr 13, 2023 6:27
Forum: General
Topic: Famous math problems
Replies: 9
Views: 1600

Re: Famous math problems

hey neil, Interesting problem, gaining insight in this conjecture seems profound to me. I tried your program and it seems that 3x is not easily substitutable by any other number. Are there any other numbers that have this property? It seems to me that 3x+1 is eventually bound to hit a power of 2. Th...
by Provoni
Apr 10, 2023 11:10
Forum: General
Topic: Cryptanalysis
Replies: 76
Views: 6543

Re: Cryptanalysis

@Provoni Have you made any updates or improvements on your 3 step text encryption algorithm? I just added dodicat's suggestion --> If you go (byval as string , ... )it preserves the original string in your functions. No updates. I can help from time to time but I'm not actively working on encryptio...
by Provoni
Apr 09, 2023 17:00
Forum: General
Topic: Cryptanalysis
Replies: 76
Views: 6543

Re: Cryptanalysis

@Provoni I already knew that. That's why I only selected an 8 Letter word. This was only an experiment. Maybe you have a better idea of how it could be improved or another method altogether. I like this better than working on prng's. Here's something inspired by your ideas. Transposition first, the...