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    This document summarizes four famous unsolved codes and ciphers: [1] The Dorabella Cipher is an encrypted letter written by composer Edward Elgar that has never been decrypted. [2] The Voynich Manuscript is a 15th century book written in an unknown script that codebreakers have failed to decipher. [3] The D'Agapeyeff Cipher was included as a challenge in a 1939 book but removed from later editions. [4] The Beale Ciphers are three ciphertexts from 1822 describing a buried treasure worth over $30 million in gold and silver, with only the second cipher solved.

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    This document summarizes four famous unsolved codes and ciphers: [1] The Dorabella Cipher is an encrypted letter written by composer Edward Elgar that has never been decrypted. [2] The Voynich Manuscript is a 15th century book written in an unknown script that codebreakers have failed to decipher. [3] The D'Agapeyeff Cipher was included as a challenge in a 1939 book but removed from later editions. [4] The Beale Ciphers are three ciphertexts from 1822 describing a buried treasure worth over $30 million in gold and silver, with only the second cipher solved.

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    This document summarizes four famous unsolved codes and ciphers: [1] The Dorabella Cipher is an encrypted letter written by composer Edward Elgar that has never been decrypted. [2] The Voynich Manuscript is a 15th century book written in an unknown script that codebreakers have failed to decipher. [3] The D'Agapeyeff Cipher was included as a challenge in a 1939 book but removed from later editions. [4] The Beale Ciphers are three ciphertexts from 1822 describing a buried treasure worth over $30 million in gold and silver, with only the second cipher solved.

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    This document summarizes four famous unsolved codes and ciphers: [1] The Dorabella Cipher is an encrypted letter written by composer Edward Elgar that has never been decrypted. [2] The Voynich Manuscript is a 15th century book written in an unknown script that codebreakers have failed to decipher. [3] The D'Agapeyeff Cipher was included as a challenge in a 1939 book but removed from later editions. [4] The Beale Ciphers are three ciphertexts from 1822 describing a buried treasure worth over $30 million in gold and silver, with only the second cipher solved.

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    Famous Unsolved

    Codes & Ciphers


    Four popular cipher texts

    - Dorabella Cipher

    - Voynich Manuscript

    - D’Agapeyeff cipher

    - Beale Ciphers
    Features
    Dorabella Cipher
    Encrypted letter written and edited by
    Edward Elgar (Romantic composer)
    to Miss Dora Penny in 1897

    She was never able to decrypt

    87 characters
    3 lines
    Alphabet of 24 symbols
    1,2,3 approximate semicircles.
    8 directions
    Small dot: significance unknown

    simple substitution cipher: fruitless


    Expected to be much more complex.
    This cipher has a very interesting
    shape, and as mentioned before,
    consists of semicircles and dots;
    does not fit pattern of simple
    substitution. Can YOU figure it
    out??
    Voynich manuscript
    Features

    Book named after Wilfrid M Voynich who


    acquired in 1912
    Written between 1450 – 1520
    Unknown author
    Unidentified script

    Intensely studied by American and


    British code breakers of World War II, but
    all failed to decode even a single word.
    This string of failures made it famous

    Elaborate hoax?
    Meaningless arbitrary symbols.
    Here is a bit closer look at this
    special cipher…
    D’Agapeyeff Cipher

    Features

    Written by Russian born English cartographer Alexander D'Agapeyeff

    Available in First edition of his Codes and Ciphers published in 1939.


    Offered as “challenge cipher” at the end of book.
    Not included in later editions.
    Numbers have actually
    played a large part in
    codes, computers, and
    hidden messages. And
    you thought they were
    just math!!!
    Beale Ciphers
    First letter
    Second letter
    Third letter
    Features

    Beale ciphers are a set of 3


    cipher texts

    Letter 1: Location
    Letter 2: Worth
    Letter 3: Next of Kin

    2nd letter deciphered using US Let to 30 adventures.


    Declaration of independence
    book as it’s key. In Iron box
    To Robert Morriss in 1822.
    Letter says Gold and Silver worth Opened in 1832
    30million US dollars. Friend deciphered 2nd letter using...

    Was owned by Thomas Jefferson Public in 1885


    Beale in 1818.
    Deciphered second letter

    “ I have deposited in the county of Bedford, about four miles


    from Buford's, in an excavation or vault, six feet below the surface
    of the ground, the following articles, belonging jointly to the
    parties whose names are given in number "3," herewith:
    The first deposit consisted of ten hundred and fourteen
    pounds of gold, and thirty-eight hundred and twelve pounds
    of silver, deposited Nov. eighteen nineteen. The second was
    made December, 1821, and consisted of nineteen hundred
    and seven pounds of gold, and twelve hundred and eighty-
    eight pounds of silver; also jewels, obtained in St. Louis in
    exchange for silver to save transportation, and valued at
    US$13,000.
    The above is securely packed in iron pots, with iron covers. The
    vault is roughly lined with stone, and the vessels rest on solid
    stone, and are covered with others. Paper number "1" describes
    the exact locality of the vault, so that no difficulty will be had in
    finding it. “
    As you can see, codes, ciphers, and messages are just
    another puzzle that needs to be solved…
    Mathematicians everywhere push their brains to the
    limit to try to solve these enigmas… Will you be the
    next great codebreaker?? Research them more at the
    following sites:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptography
    http://www.vectorsite.net/ttcode.html
    http://www.otr.com/ciphers.shtml
    http://www.iwm.org.uk/upload/package/10/enigma/enigma5.htm

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