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Brad Meltzer and the Beale Papers…

Posted by nickpelling on Oct 21st, 2011 - 2 comments.
Cipher Mysteries readers in the US may well have watched Brad Meltzer's recent "Decoded" episode on the Declaration of Independence. Though you might well think that the description listed below doesn't sound particularly promising... The Declaration of Independence is the founding document of American Democracy. Could it contain hidden messages from our nation's forefathers intended to be discovered years later? ...
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Jim Gillogly’s Beale sequence revisited…

Posted by nickpelling on Jun 22nd, 2010 - 2 comments.
Some more thoughts on the curious "key" sequence in the Beale Papers... Back in 1980, Jim Gillogly applied the Declaration of Independence codebook for the second Beale Paper ("B2") to the first Beale Paper ("B1"), and discovered a very unlikely sequence in the resulting text: ABFDEFGHIIJKLMMNOHPP. The chance of the middle section alone ("DEFGHIIJKLMMNO") occurring at random is about one ...
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The Beale Papers Paradox…

Posted by nickpelling on Jun 18th, 2010 - 17 comments.
It seems as though penetrating public cryptographic analysis of the three Beale Papers (B1, B2, and B3) halted abruptly in 1980 when Jim Gillogly pointed out a problem with B1. If, as he pointed out, you apply to B1 the same dictionary code used for B2 (famously derived from the Declaration of Independence), you get a ciphertext with some distinctive ...
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