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I was recently reading D. Denning's book on "cryptogaphy and data security";
she reports findings by J. Gillogly in 1980 (I have a reference if you want)
that tend to show that they are a hoax.  In B1, deciphered using initial
letters of Declaration of Independence, the following sequence shows up in
the plaintext: ABFDEFGHIJKLMMNOHPP.  The finst F is encrypted as 195 and
word 194 begins with a C.  Also the last H is encrypted as 301 and word 302
begins with an O.  Somebody named Hammer claims to have found 23 encryption
errors in B1, so its likely that F for C and H for O were typos, and that the
sequence should be: ABCDEFGHIJKLMMNOOPP.  You must admit this is an unlikely
sequence to turn up unless the DOI is the key and the message is a hoax.

I will be the first to admit that it is also possible this sequence is a clue.
I wonder what famous books, authors, or documents in the early 1800s have the
Wayne Pollock
initials MOP (the only doubled letters)?

In article <785@phoenix.PRINCETON.EDU> amlovell@phoenix.PRINCETON.EDU (Anthony M Lovell) writes:
>I'm interested in finding if there are any people in Netland who have
>done anything at all with the Beale Ciphers.  Send me some mail, I'm
>interested in hearing about approaches taken by other people.

I wrote a paper a few years ago for Cryptologia, in which I found that
if B1 is "decrypted" with the Declaration of Independence (the key to
B2), the result is largely garbage, but with a couple of alphabetically
increasing strings.  One is quite long; I don't remember the exact string,
but it is of the form ABFDEFGGHIJKLLMMNO or something of that sort.  Way
too long to be accidental.  I presented it as something a would-be
decryptor of B1 must take into account in any alleged decryption, since
it can't arise by chance.  I personally feel that it's a pretty good
demonstration that the Beale Ciphers are a hoax.

Needless to say, Dr. Hammer and the Beale Cypher Association don't agree.
-- 
	Jim Gillogly
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In article <282@apr.UUCP> whp@apr.UUCP (Wayne Pollock) writes:
>                   Somebody named Hammer claims to have found 23 encryption
>errors in B1, so its likely that F for C and H for O were typos, and that the
	   ^
	   |
  This should be B2, the document that described the contents of the treasure.

>sequence should be: ABCDEFGHIJKLMMNOOPP.  You must admit this is an unlikely
>sequence to turn up unless the DOI is the key and the message is a hoax.

-- 
	Jim Gillogly
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