Beale Ciphers Have Been Cracked?

[treasure1822]

The DOI contains 1312 words. The Cipher 2 message is 763 letters long consisting of 180 different letters.

So the Key TB left in St Louis would have been a list of the 180 cipher numbers used in the Cipher 2 message along with which letter is assigned to each number.

It didn't matter whether TB made a mistake because the numbered DOI wasn't the final product. The KEY with 180 Cipher numbers was thus hiding any mistakes.

If anything, the mistakes made it harder to decode Cipher 2.

Okay a clue to the mystery is why did TJB write two letters to Morris just one day apart? What is different?

 

[treasure1822]

The DOI contains 1312 words. The Cipher 2 message is 763 letters long consisting of 180 different letters.

So the Key TB left in St Louis would have been a list of the 180 cipher numbers used in the Cipher 2 message along with which letter is assigned to each number.

It didn't matter whether TB made a mistake because the numbered DOI wasn't the final product. The KEY with 180 Cipher numbers was thus hiding any mistakes.

If anything, the mistakes made it harder to decode Cipher 2.

 

[treasure1822]

stop paying attention to the mistakes...learn from them it tells you about TJB or the author...

 

[chalkoutline]

Okay a clue to the mystery is why did TJB write two letters to Morris just one day apart? What is different?

Setting aside the letters are two different subjects...the greeting and closings are different.

 

[chalkoutline]

stop paying attention to the mistakes...learn from them it tells you about TJB or the author...

For some time now, I've felt someone hiding a treasure wouldn't have used a sequentially numbered, well known document such as the DOI. Its more likely the work of the unamed author who created a complex brain teaser to entertain the reader but doesn't lead to treasure.
To that point, I share what I know but no longer pursue a solution.

 

[chalkoutline]

For some time now, I've felt someone hiding a treasure wouldn't have used a sequentially numbered, well known document such as the DOI. Its more likely the work of the unamed author who created a complex brain teaser to entertain the reader but doesn't lead to treasure.
To that point, I share what I know but no longer pursue a solution.

I might add, im pretty sure I know how to get passport the alphabetical strings. If you can't do that there is no point in trying.

 

[chalkoutline]

I might add, im pretty sure I know how to get passport the alphabetical strings. If you can't do that there is no point in trying.

Here is how to get by the strings...
When you have find the document that produces a fairly readable Cipher 1 message except lthe letters are complete gibberish at letter locations:
44 to 53
84 to 94
111 to 117
188 to 207
This is where the creator of the cipher used the DOI KEY to redact this information.

Some of the numbers used in these 4 locations are found through out Cipher and can be solved individually. Then substitute those letters into the ciphers numbers in these locations and you may be able to figure out the remaining redacted gibberish.

 

[chalkoutline]

Here is how to get by the strings...
When you have find the document that produces a fairly readable Cipher 1 message except lthe letters are complete gibberish at letter locations:
44 to 53
84 to 94
111 to 117
188 to 207
This is where the creator of the cipher used the DOI KEY to redact this information.

Some of the numbers used in these 4 locations are found through out Cipher and can be solved individually. Then substitute those letters into the ciphers numbers in these locations and you may be able to figure out the remaining redacted gibberish.

I should add one more thing...
If the above method works then Cipher 1 was created by the unamed author and intended to be solved.
But if you cannot decode the redacted parts of the Cipher 1 message than the Cipher 1 was created by TB, the treasure is real but the redacted words will prevent you from locating it just as strings were intended to do.

 

[chalkoutline]

I should add one more thing...
If the above method works then Cipher 1 was created by the unamed author and intended to be solved.
But if you cannot decode the redacted parts of the Cipher 1 message than the Cipher 1 was created by TB, the treasure is real but the redacted words will prevent you from locating it just as strings were intended to do.

I just posted that Cipher 1 cannot be solved. That means my theory...the unamed author created the ciphers for entertainment was wrong.

 

[chalkoutline]

Red Spider? NO
Arizona Stone Map? NO
Cave In VA? NO
Code Broken With Key? Yes
Secret Code On the Back Of DOI? NO
Secret Book In Library Of Congress? NO
Decoded Cipher With Modern-Day English Result? NO
Jean Laffite Inspired Code Or Treasure? NO

Are you suggesting you have copies of the original keys given to the person in st louis?

 

[johnnyrev]

Nope...i'm saying the errors were due to a person with a basic knowledge of coding not proofing his work. I am also saying that two people separated by 20 to 30 years can not make the identical errors...

So someone with a basic knowledge of coding created the Beale Ciphers?
What if the ciphers you are referring to had another cipher just beneath the surface of the cipher decoded between 1865 and 1885?
And the cipher that was decoded in the late 1800s was just a red herring keeping the real text from prying eyes?
If this scenario were true, people would be running amok trying to dig up a treasure that was not in the correct place for the last 140 years. 🧐🧐🧐

 

[johnnyrev]

Are you suggesting you have copies of the original keys given to the person in st louis?

I am suggesting that there had to be a fail-safe in place for the same reason they created the ciphers in the first place. Possibly the flood of 1826 wiped that out, too!

 

[treasure1822]

I am suggesting that there had to be a fail-safe in place for the same reason they created the ciphers in the first place. Possibly the flood of 1826 wiped that out, too!

What if it wasn't a failsafe...what if it was by design...

 

[TruthbeTold]

“What ifs” continue to make the fictional tale even less believable.