8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (6)
#11991670 at 2020-12-12 05:28:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15307: Trump 2020, 2024, 2028, 2032, 2036, 2040, 2044, 2048, 2052, 2056 Edition
@KMOV 2h
After 51 years, the Zodiac Killer's cipher has been solved by amateur codebreakers
BY LEAH ASMELASH AND CHERI MOSSBURG, CNN
More than 50 years after the so-called Zodiac Killer first began terrorizing the streets of Northern California, a code-breaking team is believed to have finally cracked one of the killer's mysterious coded messages sent to the San Francisco Chronicle in 1969.
Dubbed the "340 cipher," the message was unraveled by a trio of code breakers – David Oranchak, a software developer in Virginia, Jarl Van Eycke, a Belgian computer programmer, and Sam Blake, an Australian mathematician.
Decoding the cipher revealed the following message. It was sent in all capital letters without punctuation and included the misspelling of paradise:
"I hope you are having lots of fun in trying to catch me
That wasn't me on the TV show which brings up a point about me
I am not afraid of the gas chamber because it will send me to paradice all the sooner
Because I now have enough slaves to work for me where everyone else has nothing when they reach paradice so they are afraid of death
I am not afraid because I know that my new life will be an easy one in paradice death."
The TV show the message refers to is "The Jim Dunbar Show," a Bay Area television talk show. The cipher was sent two weeks after a person claiming to be the Zodiac Killer called into the show.
"It was incredible. It was a big shock, I never really thought we'd find anything because I had grown so used to failure," Oranchak, who's been working on solving the killer's messages since 2006, told CNN.
"When I first started, I used to get excited when I would see some words come through they were like false positives, phantoms. I had grown used to that. It was a long shot we didn't even really know if there was a message," he said. …
https://twitter.com/KMOV/status/1337598560775364609
https://www.kmov.com/news/after-51-years-the-zodiac-killers-cipher-has-been-solved-by-amateur-codebreakers/article_53204579-d9cd-5324-874b-75317593521f.html?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot
#CNNSucks
#11991623 at 2020-12-12 05:21:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15307: Trump 2020, 2024, 2028, 2032, 2036, 2040, 2044, 2048, 2052, 2056 Edition
>>11991442
Zodiac serial killer code solved more than 50 years on by team including Aussie mathematician
An Australian mathematician working with a team of three has helped crack the coded message sent more than 50 years ago by the infamous San Francisco Zodiac Killer.
The serial killer has never been caught over five murders in the Northern California area in the late 1960s and early 1970s but became known by his pseudonym in taunting letters sent to the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper.
Some of the notes came in the form of a code, including the complex 340 cipher that has remained unsolved until now.
Melbourne mathematician Samuel Blake worked in a team with codebreakers David Oranchak and Jarl Van Eycke to crack the enigmatic code.
"We tried several hundreds of thousands of indirect ways of solving the cipher and just by chance we happened to stumble upon a fragment of how it could be solved," Dr Blake told ABC News on Saturday.
"Using that fragment we reverse engineered the entire solution and got the entire message out from the Zodiac."
The decrypted message reads as follows:
I HOPE YOU ARE HAVING LOTS OF FUN IN TRYING TO CATCH ME THAT WASNT ME ON THE TV SHOW WHICH BRINGS UP A POINT ABOUT ME I AM NOT AFRAID OF THE GAS CHAMBER BECAUSE IT WILL SEND ME TO PARADICE ALL THE SOONER BECAUSE I NOW HAVE ENOUGH SLAVES TO WORK FOR ME WHERE EVERYONE ELSE HAS NOTHING WHEN THEY REACH PARADICE SO THEY ARE AFRAID OF DEATH I AM NOT AFRAID BECAUSE I KNOW THAT MY NEW LIFE IS LIFE WILL BE AN EASY ONE IN PARADICE DEATH
Dr Blake, a visiting fellow at the University of Melbourne, said the message does not reveal the killer's identity but could help authorities track down who he is.
The university's supercomputer, Spartan, helped solve the message after processing more than 600,000 possible solutions.
Dr Blake revealed the cipher had multiple symbols and was written in a different way to normal codes, which made it more difficult to crack.
"The reading direction we are normally used to is left to right and top to bottom on a page," he said.
"Whereas what the Zodiac did in this cipher was write it diagonally.
"He went one row down, two columns across, wandering down, two columns across.
"To write it out and try to stumble across that correct enumeration was one of the main difficulties here."
No-one has been charged over the Zodiac case but speculation has been rife for years as to the killer's true identity.
In a statement, the San Francisco division of the FBI said the Zodiac Killer case remains an ongoing investigation and declined to comment further out of respect for the victims and their families.
"The Zodiac Killer terrorised multiple communities across Northern California and even though decades have gone by, we continue to seek justice for the victims of these brutal crimes," a spokesman said.
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/breaking-news/zodiac-serial-killer-code-solved-more-than-50-years-on-by-team-including-aussie-mathematician/news-story/53110a38b8c741290400dbeacaefa8cc
#11991112 at 2020-12-12 04:20:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15306: EZ Oven Bake Edition
Zodiac killer code cracked by Australian mathematician Samuel Blake more than 50 years after first murder
Melbourne mathematician Samuel Blake and two fellow cryptologists have been officially recognised by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation for solving a 50-year-old cryptic message written by an as yet unnamed serial killer, known only as the Zodiac.
Dr Blake worked on decoding the message known as the "340 cipher" with two other cryptologists and a University of Melbourne supercomputer called Spartan to eventually reveal its content.
The cipher bears a distinctive circle with a cross through the middle and was sent to the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper on November 8, 1969 by a man who called himself "Zodiac".
The correspondent killer sent letters to newspapers over several years up until 1974, including proof he was responsible for the deaths of at least five people in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The official cracking of the 340-character cipher provides insight into the killer's thoughts and actions but does not reveal a name as promised in separate letters sent to newspapers.
Dr Blake told the ABC he had been working on finding a solution to the 340 cipher, considered one of the holy grails of cryptography, since contacting Zodiac cryptologist David Oranchak early in 2020.
Mr Oranchak hosts a website dedicated to cracking the Zodiac ciphers and has posted several YouTube videos detailing the work he has done over 15 years trying to solve them.
In a statement released on social media Dr Blake paid tribute to US-based Mr Oranchak and software programmer Jarl van Eycke, based in Brussels.
"During the year we tested, by trial and error, around 650,000 different reading directions through the cipher. This search turned up - more or less - nothing," he said.
"However, one of these searches uncovered a surprising combination of words: GAS CHAMBER. That such a macabre phase should pop up in a sea of noise warranted further attention.
"From this fragment, David, Jarl van Eycke and I reworked the key and corrected an error Zodiac made in his diagonal enumeration of the second vertical segment of the cipher.
"Jarl's fantastic program, azdecrypt, was essential in this process."
Dr Blake is a visiting fellow at the University of Melbourne and described how the university's supercomputer, Spartan, solved the cipher after processing 650,000 other possible solutions.
Eventually a solution that drew out a message that included the phrase "GAS CHAMBER" was revealed.
Mr Oranchak sent the proposed solution to the Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Records Unit of the FBI and within a day they officially approved the solution.
In a statement released on Friday, US time, the FBI confirmed that the cipher attributed to the Zodiac Killer was recently solved by "private citizens."
"After 50 years of active research, this cipher has finally been solved. We now understand why it resisted attacks for so long," Dr Blake wrote on social media.
"The reading direction through the cipher was so obscure, that the only way it could be found was with a massive search through many candidates using sophisticated software which can efficiently solve homophonic substitution ciphers.
"Not only were we lucky enough to find the needle in the haystack, but we were lucky enough to pick the right haystack in order to start searching for the needle."
Dr Blake and his colleagues have dedicated their work to the murder victims and their families.
The Melbourne mathematician now hopes the solution he and his colleagues have revealed will help crack the two remaining unsolved short ciphers: one with 13 symbols and the other with 32.
In correspondence, the killer hinted that these ciphers contain his name.
"I find the Zodiac case intriguing, but I'm far from a Zodiac killer expert," Dr Blake said.
"Perhaps my lack of knowledge of the case helped as it wasn't a distraction.
"It would be fantastic if this helps the investigation in some way, now it's over to the experts in interpreting the meaning of his message."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-12/zodiac-killer-code-cracked-by-australian-mathematician/12977342
#11984254 at 2020-12-11 20:02:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15297 PATRIOTS 4TW
>>11984223 me
found on qresear.ch
https://qresear.ch/?q=340+cipher
#11984223 at 2020-12-11 19:59:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15297 PATRIOTS 4TW
Genius! These codebreakers just cracked the Zodiac Killer's infamous 340 cipher, 51 YEARS after it was first published.
https://twitter.com/Not_the_Bee/status/1337473984066170881
#3677679 at 2018-10-31 19:31:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4669: Concrete Edition
>>3677658
So here is something.
This cypher has nothing to do with Halloween.
Since the first message was cracked, little has been accomplished in terms of translating the Zodiac's other secret messages, most notably his 340 symbol cipher. Mailed on November 8th, 1969 the 340 cipher has stumped even the highest experts in the field of decryption. Although some answers have been proposed, none have proved accurate enough to be a confident solution. According to experts, the 340 cipher has 63^26 possible alphabet combination keys, and it would take thousands of years to test them even with the fastest computer. It must be cracked on a basis of extensive trial and error, a feat that is anything but simple. There is hope that one day it will be cracked, especilally since the Zodiac Killer has to this day never been successfully identified. DNA evidence and handwriting analysis has consistently eliminated suspect after suspect. The case's key suspect, Arthur Leigh Allen, died of a heart attack in 1995. The Zodiac case is still open. Here is the Zodiac Killer's unsolved 340 character cipher:
https://boxofrain.wordpress.com/2007/08/12/zodiac-killers-unsolved-340-symbol-cipher/
8chan/8kun QResearch AUSTRALIA Posts (2)
#11991865 at 2020-12-12 05:51:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #11 - THE SILENT WAR CONTINUES Edition
>>11990893
>>11990910
Repost from Q Research General #15307
>>11991623 (pb)
Zodiac serial killer code solved more than 50 years on by team including Aussie mathematician
An Australian mathematician working with a team of three has helped crack the coded message sent more than 50 years ago by the infamous San Francisco Zodiac Killer.
The serial killer has never been caught over five murders in the Northern California area in the late 1960s and early 1970s but became known by his pseudonym in taunting letters sent to the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper.
Some of the notes came in the form of a code, including the complex 340 cipher that has remained unsolved until now.
Melbourne mathematician Samuel Blake worked in a team with codebreakers David Oranchak and Jarl Van Eycke to crack the enigmatic code.
"We tried several hundreds of thousands of indirect ways of solving the cipher and just by chance we happened to stumble upon a fragment of how it could be solved," Dr Blake told ABC News on Saturday.
"Using that fragment we reverse engineered the entire solution and got the entire message out from the Zodiac."
The decrypted message reads as follows:
I HOPE YOU ARE HAVING LOTS OF FUN IN TRYING TO CATCH ME THAT WASNT ME ON THE TV SHOW WHICH BRINGS UP A POINT ABOUT ME I AM NOT AFRAID OF THE GAS CHAMBER BECAUSE IT WILL SEND ME TO PARADICE ALL THE SOONER BECAUSE I NOW HAVE ENOUGH SLAVES TO WORK FOR ME WHERE EVERYONE ELSE HAS NOTHING WHEN THEY REACH PARADICE SO THEY ARE AFRAID OF DEATH I AM NOT AFRAID BECAUSE I KNOW THAT MY NEW LIFE IS LIFE WILL BE AN EASY ONE IN PARADICE DEATH
Dr Blake, a visiting fellow at the University of Melbourne, said the message does not reveal the killer's identity but could help authorities track down who he is.
The university's supercomputer, Spartan, helped solve the message after processing more than 600,000 possible solutions.
Dr Blake revealed the cipher had multiple symbols and was written in a different way to normal codes, which made it more difficult to crack.
"The reading direction we are normally used to is left to right and top to bottom on a page," he said.
"Whereas what the Zodiac did in this cipher was write it diagonally.
"He went one row down, two columns across, wandering down, two columns across.
"To write it out and try to stumble across that correct enumeration was one of the main difficulties here."
No-one has been charged over the Zodiac case but speculation has been rife for years as to the killer's true identity.
In a statement, the San Francisco division of the FBI said the Zodiac Killer case remains an ongoing investigation and declined to comment further out of respect for the victims and their families.
"The Zodiac Killer terrorised multiple communities across Northern California and even though decades have gone by, we continue to seek justice for the victims of these brutal crimes," a spokesman said.
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/breaking-news/zodiac-serial-killer-code-solved-more-than-50-years-on-by-team-including-aussie-mathematician/news-story/53110a38b8c741290400dbeacaefa8cc
#11990893 at 2020-12-12 03:57:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #11 - THE SILENT WAR CONTINUES Edition
Zodiac killer code cracked by Australian mathematician Samuel Blake more than 50 years after first murder
Melbourne mathematician Samuel Blake and two fellow cryptologists have been officially recognised by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation for solving a 50-year-old cryptic message written by an as yet unnamed serial killer, known only as the Zodiac.
Dr Blake worked on decoding the message known as the "340 cipher" with two other cryptologists and a University of Melbourne supercomputer called Spartan to eventually reveal its content.
The cipher bears a distinctive circle with a cross through the middle and was sent to the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper on November 8, 1969 by a man who called himself "Zodiac".
The correspondent killer sent letters to newspapers over several years up until 1974, including proof he was responsible for the deaths of at least five people in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The official cracking of the 340-character cipher provides insight into the killer's thoughts and actions but does not reveal a name as promised in separate letters sent to newspapers.
Dr Blake told the ABC he had been working on finding a solution to the 340 cipher, considered one of the holy grails of cryptography, since contacting Zodiac cryptologist David Oranchak early in 2020.
Mr Oranchak hosts a website dedicated to cracking the Zodiac ciphers and has posted several YouTube videos detailing the work he has done over 15 years trying to solve them.
In a statement released on social media Dr Blake paid tribute to US-based Mr Oranchak and software programmer Jarl van Eycke, based in Brussels.
"During the year we tested, by trial and error, around 650,000 different reading directions through the cipher. This search turned up - more or less - nothing," he said.
"However, one of these searches uncovered a surprising combination of words: GAS CHAMBER. That such a macabre phase should pop up in a sea of noise warranted further attention.
"From this fragment, David, Jarl van Eycke and I reworked the key and corrected an error Zodiac made in his diagonal enumeration of the second vertical segment of the cipher.
"Jarl's fantastic program, azdecrypt, was essential in this process."
Dr Blake is a visiting fellow at the University of Melbourne and described how the university's supercomputer, Spartan, solved the cipher after processing 650,000 other possible solutions.
Eventually a solution that drew out a message that included the phrase "GAS CHAMBER" was revealed.
Mr Oranchak sent the proposed solution to the Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Records Unit of the FBI and within a day they officially approved the solution.
In a statement released on Friday, US time, the FBI confirmed that the cipher attributed to the Zodiac Killer was recently solved by "private citizens."
"After 50 years of active research, this cipher has finally been solved. We now understand why it resisted attacks for so long," Dr Blake wrote on social media.
"The reading direction through the cipher was so obscure, that the only way it could be found was with a massive search through many candidates using sophisticated software which can efficiently solve homophonic substitution ciphers.
"Not only were we lucky enough to find the needle in the haystack, but we were lucky enough to pick the right haystack in order to start searching for the needle."
Dr Blake and his colleagues have dedicated their work to the murder victims and their families.
The Melbourne mathematician now hopes the solution he and his colleagues have revealed will help crack the two remaining unsolved short ciphers: one with 13 symbols and the other with 32.
In correspondence, the killer hinted that these ciphers contain his name.
"I find the Zodiac case intriguing, but I'm far from a Zodiac killer expert," Dr Blake said.
"Perhaps my lack of knowledge of the case helped as it wasn't a distraction.
"It would be fantastic if this helps the investigation in some way, now it's over to the experts in interpreting the meaning of his message."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-12/zodiac-killer-code-cracked-by-australian-mathematician/12977342