I Have Decoded The Beale Ciphers

[chalkoutline]

Sorry, but I'm not buying it.

It seems to me TB would have created a readable message in the same style as the decoded message from Cipher2/DOI and then used a complex encryption to protect the message.

Why would TB write in, as you call it, "pirate talk" to create the Cipher 1 message? Makes no sense.

Anyone who has analyzed Cipher 2, knows that when you number the DOI and apply it to Cipher 2, some parts of the decoded message are readable and some parts art gibberish, especially towards the end of the cipher numbers.

When i consider this when looking at johnnyrev's snippets, i would conclude he may be close because it appears some words are readable but the sentence structure indicates he has missing words.

This would seem to support my theory that the ciphers are real but the manually inserted alphabetical strings are used to redact important/key location information which creates missing letters and words in the Cipher 1 decoded message....but would account for "pirate" talk.

 

[johnnyrev]

Anyone who has analyzed Cipher 2, knows that when you number the DOI and apply it to Cipher 2, some parts of the decoded message are readable and some parts art gibberish, especially towards the end of the cipher numbers.

When i consider this when looking at johnnyrev's snippets, i would conclude he may be close because it appears some words are readable but the sentence structure indicates he has missing words.

This would seem to support my theory that the ciphers are real but the manually inserted alphabetical strings are used to redact important/key location information which creates missing letters and words in the Cipher 1 decoded message....but would account for "pirate" talk.

Cipher 2, decoded in the 1800s, contains a misleading message designed to confuse those attempting to break the cipher. This plaintext is actually a simple decoy intended to mislead! In fact, the version found in the Beale Papers is not the original. The English was modified in 1885 to make it understandable for a contemporary reader.