Beale Cipher 1 and Cipher 3: Numbers With No Messages

ePrint Report: Beale Cipher 1 and Cipher 3: Numbers With No Messages

Richard Wassmer

This paper's purpose is to give a new method of analyzing Beale Cipher 1 and Cipher 3 and to show that there is no key which will decipher them into sentences.
Previous research has largely used statistical methods to
either decipher them or prove they have no solution. Some
of these methods show that there is a high probability, but not certainty that they are unsolvable. …

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