Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!brl-tgr!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: net.crypt,net.misc Subject: Re: The Beale Ciphers Message-ID: <3102@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Fri, 6-Jul-84 17:21:58 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.3102 Posted: Fri Jul 6 17:21:58 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 8-Jul-84 00:52:01 EDT References: <148@oakhill.UUCP> Organization: Ballistics Research Lab Lines: 12 I am convinced that the Beale ciphers are real, although who knows what the undeciphered ones say. They do have similar statistical characteristics to the one that has been deciphered. I did a bit of research years ago to try to find the key document for the cipher that supposedly tells where the treasure is (after all, why decipher the one that tells who is legitimately entitled to the treasure?). My premise was that some other writing of Thomas Jefferson was most likely the key document. However, Jefferson wrote few documents that have enough words in them. The one I found most promising was also the one that T. J. considered his most important, something like "A Bill to Repeal Slavery in Virginia". I never could get it to work, though. Maybe there was a misnumbering or something.