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Unscramble and find $ 30 million
Secret message
Since ancient times, the world's preserved ancient scrolls, manuscripts, plaques with cryptic notes that historians and linguists are trying to decipher. But to no avail. Even though the development of the most advanced technologies decryption, which accelerated with the advent of the Internet, mankind continues to puzzle over the unsolved messages. Sometimes the simplest kind of characters - points, lines, images of animals or the likeness of a man. But what do they mean? Unclear. What can we say about the more complicated signs of the Phaistos disk or the Voynich manuscript. Researchers trying to find the meaning set forth in these historical documents, written hundreds of volumes. But in the court of the first decade of the XXI century - and things are there. British scientists recently published a list of ten ciphers, the contents of which have not yet been able to reveal, despite the breakthrough computer technology. Maybe you, our dear readers, try to find clues to the mysterious Writing?
"The papers of exceptional importance»
The first information about the "treasures Bale" appeared in 1855 in a pamphlet by an unknown author under the long title: "Documents Bale, or book, containing the true facts about the treasure buried in 1819 and 1821. far from Bafordsa, Bedford County, Virginia, and is not found to date. " The original manuscript is still preserved in the library of the US Congress. The book tells about the innkeeper Robert Morris, who did not just stop Thomas Jefferson Bale, a hunter and a gold digger. Although later it has been suggested that this name was hiding the famous pirate Jean Lafitte, hornbeam English and Spanish ships. And once the guest has left the deposit of Morris's locked iron box, "which laid the paper of exceptional importance." Uncover her Bale allowed only after ten years, if he does not show up. Bail was gone, and the owner opened the box that appeared, and three encrypted messages. Cryptogram number 1 informed about the whereabouts of the cache; Number 2 -o its contents; Number 3 - the names and addresses of the heirs.
Cryptogram 1. Finding the cache
Huge rows of numbers
Encryption is a huge series of different numbers. Attempts were made to read them repeatedly. Thus, the author of the brochure suggested initially that "each number represents a letter." But he counted their number and concluded that it exceeds by several times the number of letters in the alphabet. Then he applied the method of "disposable shifrobloknota" - when a certain book is the key. After a long search for a book, the key was the one that was constantly in the hotel room, where they often stayed Bale - US Declaration of Independence. Author numbered words on the first page, followed by substituting the first letter of each digit word, received the corresponding number. And I read!
The note informed about the treasure "of two wagons of gold and silver." These treasures, according to Bale, caught him by chance in the 1820s, he came across a companion gold mine while pursuing a herd of buffalo. Vein located "somewhere in the 250 - 800 miles north of Santa Fe." A prey hidden in an underground mine, "not far from Buford." Price treasure in terms of today's money should be about $ 30 million. "All of the above is securely hidden in iron pots - wrote Bale - closed the iron lid. Place cache note several laid out around the stone vessels rest on a stone base and covered on top and stones. Paper number 1 describes the exact location of the cache, so that it can be found without the slightest effort ».
The first success was the last. The Declaration of Independence did not give the keys to any of the other cryptograms. Researchers have tried to find the key and in the other books, which would be used as Bale, living in the hotel: the Constitution of the United States and even the complete works of Shakespeare. To crack codes Bale used for about 8000 documents, among them - the statutes of the United States, the agreement between the government and the Apaches, Bull of Pope Adrian IV concerning the invasion of Ireland and even the treaty of Brest-Litovsk (1918). Wasted!
Cryptogram 2 decrypted. Content cache
Maybe it's a shocker?
However, there were skeptics (or maybe just offended the failure?), Who have argued that the "Documents Bale ..." - it's just a shocker, created in the tradition of the late XIX century: the secret treasures of the pirates. Some even attributed the authorship of the celebrated American writer, poet, and cryptography Edgar Allan Poe. His contemporaries testify that Poe loved to drive the audience's nose. And in our time, computer analysis showed that possibility, but researchers fear make the final verdict. For cipher Bale were taken and the military. For example, a well-known cryptographer in the service of the US government, Colonel George Fabian in 1924 took up the calculations - and also failed. According to him, the code Bale belongs to the category of higher complexity.
In 1968 was formed a group of enthusiasts, cryptographers, called ciphers Bale Association, which consisted of Carl Hammer - one of the pioneers of computer cryptanalysis, but it failed to make headway. At the peak of the skeptics Hammer even managed to prove the methods of mathematical statistics, which cryptograms are not at a set of random numbers, and all three can be traced cyclic relationship, characteristic for the ciphertext, and, according to his opinion, the encrypted is the substitution of numbers instead of native characters.
Treasure Seekers tried to find the easiest way: digging in areas that are indirectly referred Bale in the second cryptogram. In particular, based on the words "4 miles from Buford tavern" and "surrounded by stones", every summer crowd wanting to get rich flooding a neighborhood of Goose Creek. They buy metal detectors, hiring psychics and dowsers, and, to the dismay of local farmers, digging deep holes near each stone placers.
In the Internet from time to time pops up information like a certain lucky still managed to get close to a solution, or even to find a hiding place Bale. But while checking it turns out that all such declarations - unfounded. And recently even went to the rumor that the treasures passed into the hands of NASA, because only this agency is best placed in the world by the cryptanalysts, mathematicians, and the most powerful computers, the strength to decipher the 155-year-old mystery.
Comment specialist
Michael Gerstein, a researcher artifacts, chairman of the UFO commission of the Russian Geographical Society:
- Even in the non-professional level, it is clear that in the case of "kriptrogrammami Bale" encryption is based on the fact that the recipient must know which book to climb to associate letters with numbers cipher. Of course, the first researcher lucky when he first cryptogram deciphered, compared the cipher text of the Declaration of Independence. Others cryptogram may be based on any of the tens of thousands of books published at that time, and not even necessarily in English.
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Since ancient times, the world's preserved ancient scrolls, manuscripts, plaques with cryptic notes that historians and linguists are trying to decipher. But to no avail. Even though the development of the most advanced technologies decryption, which accelerated with the advent of the Internet, mankind continues to puzzle over the unsolved messages. Sometimes the simplest kind of characters - points, lines, images of animals or the likeness of a man. But what do they mean? Unclear. What can we say about the more complicated signs of the Phaistos disk or the Voynich manuscript. Researchers trying to find the meaning set forth in these historical documents, written hundreds of volumes. But in the court of the first decade of the XXI century - and things are there. British scientists recently published a list of ten ciphers, the contents of which have not yet been able to reveal, despite the breakthrough computer technology. Maybe you, our dear readers, try to find clues to the mysterious Writing?
"The papers of exceptional importance»
The first information about the "treasures Bale" appeared in 1855 in a pamphlet by an unknown author under the long title: "Documents Bale, or book, containing the true facts about the treasure buried in 1819 and 1821. far from Bafordsa, Bedford County, Virginia, and is not found to date. " The original manuscript is still preserved in the library of the US Congress. The book tells about the innkeeper Robert Morris, who did not just stop Thomas Jefferson Bale, a hunter and a gold digger. Although later it has been suggested that this name was hiding the famous pirate Jean Lafitte, hornbeam English and Spanish ships. And once the guest has left the deposit of Morris's locked iron box, "which laid the paper of exceptional importance." Uncover her Bale allowed only after ten years, if he does not show up. Bail was gone, and the owner opened the box that appeared, and three encrypted messages. Cryptogram number 1 informed about the whereabouts of the cache; Number 2 -o its contents; Number 3 - the names and addresses of the heirs.
Cryptogram 1. Finding the cache
Huge rows of numbers
Encryption is a huge series of different numbers. Attempts were made to read them repeatedly. Thus, the author of the brochure suggested initially that "each number represents a letter." But he counted their number and concluded that it exceeds by several times the number of letters in the alphabet. Then he applied the method of "disposable shifrobloknota" - when a certain book is the key. After a long search for a book, the key was the one that was constantly in the hotel room, where they often stayed Bale - US Declaration of Independence. Author numbered words on the first page, followed by substituting the first letter of each digit word, received the corresponding number. And I read!
The note informed about the treasure "of two wagons of gold and silver." These treasures, according to Bale, caught him by chance in the 1820s, he came across a companion gold mine while pursuing a herd of buffalo. Vein located "somewhere in the 250 - 800 miles north of Santa Fe." A prey hidden in an underground mine, "not far from Buford." Price treasure in terms of today's money should be about $ 30 million. "All of the above is securely hidden in iron pots - wrote Bale - closed the iron lid. Place cache note several laid out around the stone vessels rest on a stone base and covered on top and stones. Paper number 1 describes the exact location of the cache, so that it can be found without the slightest effort ».
The first success was the last. The Declaration of Independence did not give the keys to any of the other cryptograms. Researchers have tried to find the key and in the other books, which would be used as Bale, living in the hotel: the Constitution of the United States and even the complete works of Shakespeare. To crack codes Bale used for about 8000 documents, among them - the statutes of the United States, the agreement between the government and the Apaches, Bull of Pope Adrian IV concerning the invasion of Ireland and even the treaty of Brest-Litovsk (1918). Wasted!
Cryptogram 2 decrypted. Content cache
Maybe it's a shocker?
However, there were skeptics (or maybe just offended the failure?), Who have argued that the "Documents Bale ..." - it's just a shocker, created in the tradition of the late XIX century: the secret treasures of the pirates. Some even attributed the authorship of the celebrated American writer, poet, and cryptography Edgar Allan Poe. His contemporaries testify that Poe loved to drive the audience's nose. And in our time, computer analysis showed that possibility, but researchers fear make the final verdict. For cipher Bale were taken and the military. For example, a well-known cryptographer in the service of the US government, Colonel George Fabian in 1924 took up the calculations - and also failed. According to him, the code Bale belongs to the category of higher complexity.
In 1968 was formed a group of enthusiasts, cryptographers, called ciphers Bale Association, which consisted of Carl Hammer - one of the pioneers of computer cryptanalysis, but it failed to make headway. At the peak of the skeptics Hammer even managed to prove the methods of mathematical statistics, which cryptograms are not at a set of random numbers, and all three can be traced cyclic relationship, characteristic for the ciphertext, and, according to his opinion, the encrypted is the substitution of numbers instead of native characters.
Treasure Seekers tried to find the easiest way: digging in areas that are indirectly referred Bale in the second cryptogram. In particular, based on the words "4 miles from Buford tavern" and "surrounded by stones", every summer crowd wanting to get rich flooding a neighborhood of Goose Creek. They buy metal detectors, hiring psychics and dowsers, and, to the dismay of local farmers, digging deep holes near each stone placers.
In the Internet from time to time pops up information like a certain lucky still managed to get close to a solution, or even to find a hiding place Bale. But while checking it turns out that all such declarations - unfounded. And recently even went to the rumor that the treasures passed into the hands of NASA, because only this agency is best placed in the world by the cryptanalysts, mathematicians, and the most powerful computers, the strength to decipher the 155-year-old mystery.
Comment specialist
Michael Gerstein, a researcher artifacts, chairman of the UFO commission of the Russian Geographical Society:
- Even in the non-professional level, it is clear that in the case of "kriptrogrammami Bale" encryption is based on the fact that the recipient must know which book to climb to associate letters with numbers cipher. Of course, the first researcher lucky when he first cryptogram deciphered, compared the cipher text of the Declaration of Independence. Others cryptogram may be based on any of the tens of thousands of books published at that time, and not even necessarily in English.
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