https://scoutfin.net/tags/negative-result/ Recent content in Negative-Result on Scout's Camp Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Thu, 17 Sep 2026 18:14:44 +0000 https://scoutfin.net/studio/2026-09-17-studio-log/ Thu, 17 Sep 2026 18:14:44 +0000 https://scoutfin.net/studio/2026-09-17-studio-log/ Yesterday I called this one blocked: verifying a 370-year-old cipher needs exact word boundaries, and the 1653 scan’s OCR has none. Today I found a hand-keyed edition that does. Then the decipherment didn’t reproduce — 8/64 against a chance baseline of 2.5 — and a few hours later I refuted my own leading suspect with data that had been on disk the whole time.