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- detrux, on 10/12/2007, -9/+37Decoded message reads: "Bitch, give me a cheeseburger with extra pickles."
When asked why he used such a strange message, the judge replied: "Don't make Peter Smith smack a bitch". - shoover, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26Thanks, captain obvious.
- rapptech, on 10/12/2007, -5/+22"Don't forget to drink your Ovaltine"
- JFalt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11The judge verifies the answer in this article : http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyid=2006-04-28T133451Z_01_L28316444_RTRUKOC_0_US-DAVINCI.xml
- Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Fibonacci.. makes sense considering the novel. I'd tried Caesar shifts, substitutions, Vigneres, rail-roads, etc.. and it was much to small for frequency analysis. Kind of a "why didn't I think of that?" when the key turns out to be fibonacci..
.. a good lesson to reinforce "try the obvious first". - mattymayhem, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Sounds legit but has the bloke come out and confirmed it and offered his reward/explanation like he said he would?
- jgreath, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6It may be in reference to the idea that many of the people in power around the world are actually shape-changing reptiles. It's a pretty nutty conspiracy theory, but one that has become pretty popular.
- mendicant, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8From the article:
Smith apparently lives by this maxim. He told The Times: "It was for my own pleasure. The answer is nothing to do with the case." - Otto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I'm more interested in this Lizard conspiracy they are referring to. What's that about?
- ywwg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3They don't describe how the cipher works, however. It has something to do with letter substitution and the fibonacci sequence, but I can't figure out the rest.
- EBFoxbat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I like this judge. Glad I don't have him though.
- thewise1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3It sounds like the Greys and Reptilians conspiracy theory... (?)
I really don't know, I prefer my conspiracy theories to have more proof ;) - Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Telling you how would take some of the fun away. RE it.
Take the sequence of letters that make up the answer (plaintext), and compare the positions of the letters with those of the code (ciphertext). You also know the intermediate information (the Fibonacci sequence), so you've got everything you need to break it apart. And there are no multiples of large prime numbers so it shouldn't be too difficult.
Here is a bigger hint.. The capital J appears in the same location in the ciphertext as in the plaintext, while the first digit of the sequence is "1"... - mikedpirone, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3FRA-GEEL-EH......must be Italian
- yuletide, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Haha!
"Marvellously, Jackie Fisher [the name revealed by the code] is said to be the originator of the belligerent gem: 'Never explain, never apologise.'"
Sounds good to me :) - Gozel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Regarding the lizard thing, read a guy named David Icke (there are some bootleg PDF's you can find using google). He is pretty crazy, but it is a really fun science-fiction read even if he didn't mean for it to be. You do have to muddle through a lot of grammar problems, though...
- Matteos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"They Live"
- epoch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2For more on how the cipher works see the following.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/3826803.html - Shorties, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://digg.com/links/Lawyers_Crack_Da_Vinci_Judge_s_Secret_Code
- drigz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It was fibonacci based transposition, wasn't it? The article said something like rearrange...
- ErifNeerg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1but Brown says it's based on actual historical facts. kinda like a historical fiction book, while the story never happened and the story interacts with real events, the story never really happened.
- bsoric, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's not a Caesar Shift unless every letter is shifted by the same amount.
It's a polyalphabetic cipher when there's a key that defines how many letters each character is shifted. - jmasters, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I like the quote in my morning paper from a lawyer, "There's not been a billable hour all day in this city." indicating that all the lawyers were working on this problem instead. :-)
- retawd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I like Paris Hilton's "Tell them what they want to hear then do whatever you want."
- zixx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithy_code
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Fisher - adminmatt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1*lawyer looks at document*
o_O...
"A crummy commercial?! Son Of a Bitch!" - retawd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Huh huh huh huh... FAGABEFE
- RobotCitizen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Reptile or not, I like this judge.
- titorudz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Were Jesus and Mary Magdalene married and bore a child?
According to Mr. Dan Brown, if Jesus were not married, at least one of the Bible's
gospels would have mentioned it and offered some explanation for His unnatural
state of bachelorhood. On the contrary, I would think that if Jesus and Mary Magdalene
were married, there should have been an account of such an important event in the
life of a significant figure. For now, and most likely even then, marriage is a very important
event in the life of one person, so important as not to be covered especially if Mary Magdalene
comes from royalty. Oh, but then again Mr. Dan Brown would say that the Bible
was compiled and edited by men who possessed a political agenda. Most likely such
an important event was deleted from the gospels. - orangetiki, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1For some reason, I wouldn't think he was a master coder
- dezmo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0didn't he use a Ceasar shift in a way? (shifting with the fibanachi series?)
p.s. - am I the only one who has trouble reading the codes for posting comments? - philz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Why?
;) - Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Oh, wow, I am now so very unimpressed with the people who decoded it because they received help.. Oh well, still lots of unsolved codes to play with.. http://elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
- snypa, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1hahaha thats jokes.
- wizgha, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1When a lawyer/anyone that came out of law school gets decent...
- crosenblum, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0lol very amusing
- strictnein, on 10/12/2007, -12/+3Did you try Viagra?
- chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -27/+11Yeah, we are perfectly capable of reading the story on our own. Thanks.
- YourM0m, on 10/12/2007, -31/+5It reads: "Jackie Fisher, who are you? Dreadnought"
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Steve - http://tail-f.net/ - utch, on 10/12/2007, -55/+9FYI The Da Vinci Code (the book) is fiction.
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