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	Beale ciphers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Beale ciphers are a set of three ciphertexts, one of which allegedly states the location of a buried treasure of gold and silver estimated to be worth over 30 million US dollars in today's money.
		It is claimed that Beale placed the ciphertexts in an iron box, and left it with a reliable person, a Lynchburg innkeeper, Robert Morriss, near Montvale in Bedford County, Virginia (where the treasure is said to have been buried).
		Beale promised to mail Morriss the keys, but they were never received; perhaps Beale died before he could do so.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beale_ciphers (1340 words)

	TINA: Goldschatz zu vergeben! Die DOC-Files, http://www.ariplex.com/tina/tbeale05.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Beale, whoever he was, numbered the words of the DOI and used these numbers as his cipher elements.
		Beale, who remained, soon became a favored and popular guest; his social disposition and friendly demeanor rendered him extremely popular with every one, particularly the ladies, and a pleasant and friendly intercourse was quickly established between them.
		Beale said in the letter that he traveled to the spot where the gold was found and established an organized method of mining the precious metal.
	www.ariplex.com /tina/tbeale05.htm (13053 words)

	[2.0] Refining The Art
		For example, two substitution cipher alphabets could be defined and used on alternating letters of a plaintext, with all the even-numbered letters enciphered by one cipher alphabet and all the odd-numbered letters enciphered by the other.
		When Beale left for the second time, he left a locked box with Morriss, along with written instructions that the box contained "papers of value and importance" and that it was not to be opened for ten years.
		Beale made two such trips, burying the treasure in the Lynchburg area, and then left the enciphered documents with Morriss so that somebody would be able to arrange the distribution of the treasure to relatives if any disaster occurred to the adventurers.
	www.vectorsite.net /ttcode_02.html (3082 words)

	Beale Treasure
		Then, according to Beale’s note, they struck lucky: “The party, encamped in a small ravine, were preparing their evening meal, when one of the men discovered in a cleft of the rocks something that had the appearance of gold.
		Hence, Beale was instructed to find a reliable person, who could be confided in to carry out their wishes in the event of their sudden death, and Beale selected Morriss to be that person.
		Beale’s note said that the key required to decipher the sheets would be posted to Beale by a third party, but it never materialised, and so Morriss was forced to unscramble the three sheets from scratch.
	www.simonsingh.net /Beale_Treasure_Ciphers.html (1860 words)

	b>CHAPTER I RESULTS OF SOME COMPUTER ANALYSES OF THE VALIDITY OF THE BEALE CIPHERS
		Cipher 1 is supposed to give the precise location of the treasure and Cipher 3 is supposed to give directions on how to divide the treasure among the heirs of Beale and his partners.
		The coefficient of correlation for Cipher 2 is +0.984 and for Cipher 3 is -0.805.
		The results for Ciphers 1, 2 and 3 for thirty runs of random cipher and thirty runs of Beale-text constrained random cipher are given respectively in Attachment 6, Attachment 7, and Attachment 8.
	www.myoutbox.net /bch1.htm (2366 words)

	The Beale Ciphers Demystified
		Cipher # 1 (C1) is the unsolved cipher left by Thomas Jefferson Beale which supposedly describes the location of the treasure.
		Cipher # 2 (C2) is the cipher which Ward claims to have solved.
		These ciphers are in the form of 1 to 4-digit numbers delimited by dots or commas.
	bealeciphers.tripod.com (1311 words)

	Beale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Octavius Beale (1850-1930), a piano manufacturer and a philanthropist.
		Beale Street a famous attraction in (Memphis, Tennessee).
		The Beale ciphers, a set of encrypted documents suspected of disclosing a treasure location.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beale (135 words)

	Trumalia: Enigmas and the Art of Search: A Source of Inspiration
		The Beale ciphers remain one of the most perplexing mysteries in the world of codebreaking.
		At age 88, understanding that his life was coming to an end, he explained the existence of the ciphers to a friend, who subsequently published a pamphlet explaining the mystery.
		Many have speculated that the Beale ciphers are a hoax, but others continue to try their hand at breaking the ciphers.
	trumalia.blogspot.com /2006/05/source-of-inspiration.html (427 words)

	Beale Cipher Information and Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Author's note: "Beale's Disk Cipher," as it came to be known, was widely regarded as being superior to the wheel device.
		The original inspiration for this was the Beale Cipher, a coded message that (ostensibly) gives the location of 1200 pounds of gold somewhere in the hills of Virginia.
		culminated in the 'chiffre indÃ©chiffrable' (the unbreakable cipher).
	www.spywarealarms.com /beale-cipher.htm (1091 words)

	The Beale Treasure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The note went on to explain that Beale and his men mined the site for the next eighteen months, by which time they had accumulated a large quantity of gold, as well as some silver which was found nearby.
		Consequently, the tale of the Beale ciphers continues to enthral codebreakers and treasure hunters.
		The following paper is marked "3" in the series, and as we are informed, contains thenames of Beale's associates, who are joint owners of the fund deposited, together with the names of the nearest relatives of each party, with their several places of residence.
	www.dfw.net /~amaranth/BealeTreasure.htm (1948 words)

	MSN India :: Exclusive Column - Take IT Cool
		The stranger in question was Thomas Jefferson Beale, and the papers he left behind in 1820 are now famous as the Beale ciphers.
		It is easy for quantum cryptographers to sneer at something that is as archaic as the Beale ciphers, but the Beale cipher has something in its favor that no other system currently possesses-it has been shown to be literally unbreakable, not just in theory, but in practice.
		Since the Beale ciphers have resisted attacks for a long time, it would not be improper to study this method with greater vigor.
	server1.msn.co.in /msncolumn/takeitcool/articles/output.asp?urlid=4 (839 words)

	Beale cipher decryption software
		As with all ciphers, if you had the keys you would be able to solve the codes in a matter of minutes.
		Beale used the first letter of each word to spell the encoded text and the corresponding number of the word with that letter to create the cipher used in cipher 2.
		It is generally believed that the remaining ciphers are encoded text, however there is no way to prove historically that the numbers are indeed valid.
	www.xenosoftinc.com /temp06.htm (2406 words)

	Beale Ciphers Analyses
		The "Beale Monograph" is a new high water mark in the search for the author of The Beale Papers.
		In his letter of January 4, 1822 to Morriss, Beale used the words "stampeding" and "improvised", but the earliest known printed source for them is 1883 and 1837 respectively.
		It was a dime novel, an adventure, originally written to aid the families of the victims of a terrible fire (Page 20), and later resurrected and promoted for income for a newspaper in financial crisis.
	www.angelfire.com /pro/bealeciphers (996 words)

	beale cipher Index - Computer-Technology-Find (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The story of the Beale ciphers begins in January 1820, when a stranger by the...
		The Beale Ciphers are well known in the lore of cryptography -- see, eg,...
		The debate over what is the correct solution to the Beale Ciphers has raged on for many years.
	www.computer-technology-find.com /Cipher/beale-cipher.html (566 words)

	TINA: Goldschatz zu vergeben! Unterlagen, http://www.ariplex.com/tina/tbeale06.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Beale has long been a hobby for Matyas and he has probably looked at the ciphers from a cryptographers point of view, in more detail than anyone.
		Matyas takes no side's as to whether the Beale legend is true or not and readers are presumed to already be aware of the Beale story and ciphers.
		The booklet analyzes the ciphers and produces a strong case for explaining the method whereby Beale's first and third cipher's were produced.
	www.ariplex.com /tina/tbeale06.htm (371 words)

	The Beale Ciphers by George Love
		The ciphers allegedly were written more than sixty years before by Beale, who was never seen or heard from again.
		Either they move on to Cipher No. 1 and see what conclusions may be drawn; or they stay with Cipher No. 2 and try to figure out more about how it was written.
		By contrast, the rest of the cipher has ten errors, half of them typesetting mistakes and the remainder arising by having picked a cipher code adjacent to the one intended).
	www.myoutbox.net /blove.htm (3331 words)

	BealeCiphers - AndyPryke.com
		The Beale Cipers may be a hoax, or may contain instructions which lead to a hoard of gold.
		They were published in the US in the 19th Century, with a decoding for Cipher 2.
		Speculation on how the cipher 2 was created, and a comparison with 1 and 3 - http://www.uglx.org/beale.html
	www.andypryke.com /pub/BealeCiphers (270 words)

	Possible Solutions
		Although I have my own beliefs about what the solution to the ciphers may be, I feel it is important for everyone to reach their own conclusion.
		In October 1980, Jim Gillogly had a paper published in Cryptologia, a cryptography journal, that presented his theory for why the Beale Ciphers are a hoax.
		He feels because of these long odds, that this is proof that the ciphers are either a hoax, or need another layer of decryption in order to reveal the solution.
	smd173.tripod.com /Beale/Solutions.htm (720 words)

	Cryptography > Beale ciphers > Beale ciphers Blog Entries : Meso Gunus Web Guides
		Cryptology is the study of cryptography and cryptanalysis.
		Saturday 14th of May 2005 11:30:00 PM The Beale* Ciphers The Voynich Manuscript "Pomp And Circumstance" composer Edward Elger's Dorabella Cipher...
		and cryptoanalysis culminated in the 'chiffre indéchiffrable' (the unbreakable cipher).
	cryptography.mesogunus.com /cryptography/beale-ciphers/posts (511 words)

	Famous Unsolved Codes and Ciphers~heather
		Beale Ciphers - In 1885, a small pamphlet was published in Virginia containing a story and three encrypted messages.
		Dorabella Cipher - In 1897, the well-known composer Edward Elgar (of "Pomp and Circumstance" fame) sent an encrypted message to a 23-year-old friend.
		Over the next two hundred years, multiple well-financed attempts have been made to learn what is hidden, but have been repeatedly foiled due to the unstable nature of the surrounding land, and the tendency for deep tunnels to suddenly flood with water.
	www.unsolvedmysteries.com /usm421095.html (2026 words)

	Beale - Bookpool: Jay Beale
		Cipher # 1 (C1) is the unsolved cipher left by Thomas Jefferson Beale which
		JT Beale and AT Layton, On the accuracy of finite difference methods for GR Baker and JT Beale, Vortex blob methods applied to interfacial motion,
		Beale Travel Service, Inc. was founded in 1910 with William Beale having a dream to assist those immigrating to America.
	infosvc.com /ifsv/beale.htm (173 words)

	Unexplained Mysteries Discussion Forums > The Beagle Treasure
		The Beale Ciphers 1 + 3 still haven't been deciphered and are said to contain the location of the treasure.
		The 1st and 3rd cipher contain higher numbers than the 2nd, some higher than the number of words in the declaration of independance which was suspected to be because the 1st and 3rd are different types of cipher.
		There is something interesting that is found when the 1st cipher is compared with the declaration of independance as the 2nd one was.
	www.unexplained-mysteries.com /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t10460.html (402 words)

	The Beale Ciphers... [Archive] - Nomad Gaming
		In the note Beale told his friend to divide the treasure into thirty-one shares, one for himself and one for each of the men's families.
		No one has been able to crack the first or third ciphers, although the second cipher explaining the contents of the vault was cracked in the late eighteen hundreds.
		The ciphers were pages of numbers arranged in ten columns, from the second cipher each number corresponded to a letter in the Declaration of Independence.
	www.nomadgaming.com /forums/archive/index.php/t-5601.html (1177 words)

	Elonka's List of Famous Unsolved Codes and Ciphers
		A couple of the better-known unsolved ancient historical scripts are also thrown in, since they tend to come up during any discussion of unsolved codes.
		In 1885, a small pamphlet was published in Virginia containing a story and three encrypted messages.
		The pamphlet went on to state that the innkeeper, after having not heard from Beale for many years, opened the box and discovered encrypted messages.
	elonka.com /UnsolvedCodes.html (2084 words)

	Braingle: Newsgroups
		In 1819 amd 1821, a fellow by the name of Thomas J. Beale supposedly buried two wagons-full of gold and silver filled pots in Bedford County, near Roanoke.
		A stylometric analysis by William Poundstone indicates that the author of "The Beale Papers" and the author of the Thomas Beale letters are one and the same, which is pretty conclusive evidence that the whole thing is a hoax.
		References: "The Beale Treasure: New History of a Mystery", by Peter Viemeister, Bedord, VA: Hamilton's, 1997.
	www.braingle.com /news/hallfame.php?path=treasure/Beale.p&sol=1 (888 words)

	sci.crypt: Question about the Beale ciphers
		These ciphers are probably a hoax but it is still possible there is an
		it appears the 1st cipher, which is the location of the treasure, has
		chunk of text for a null cipher based on either all the common...
	www.derkeiler.com /Newsgroups/sci.crypt/2003-04/0383.html (536 words)

	Beale Treasure Center
		Page last updated on: Wednesday, May 3, 2006 at 1:15 AM What's New?: Nothing from me. I have not been working on the Beale Ciphers for over two years now, but I still peruse the message boards from time to time and keep an eye on latest developments (thanks Ron G.).
		For over 120 years the Beale Treasure Ciphers have captured the attention of professional and amateur cryptanalysts, as well as treasure hunters from all over the world.
		I have worked on the Beale Codes ever since I first learned about them on the May 18, 1988 broadcast of Unsolved Mysteries.
	smd173.tripod.com /Beale (342 words)

	Page 9 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This website does not refer specifically to the Beale Ciphers.
		There are many scholarly websites on Poe the writer, and Poe the cryptographer, but I have found none that mention a link between him and the Beale Papers, except as noted on Page 4.
		In some of the crypto websites on Poe there is some criticism of his cryptographic abilities; that he used monoalphabetic substitutions almost exclusively; that his knowledge was limited, having been garnered from reading an encyclopedia.
	www.angelfire.com /pro/bealeciphers/Page9.htm (148 words)

	sci.crypt: Re: Question about the Beale ciphers
		Why did the ciphers have to be held by a
		actual unique text used for each cipher in of itself a challenge to...
		Re: Newbie - How can I figure out which cipher was used...
	www.derkeiler.com /Newsgroups/sci.crypt/2003-04/0741.html (562 words)

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