Breaking the Zodiac Killer’s Code
The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation has officially recognized Melbourne mathematician Samuel Blake and two other cryptologists, American David Oranchak and Brussels based software programmer Jarl van Eycke, for solving a 50-year-old encrypted message written by the unnamed serial killer known as “the Zodiac”.
Dr Samuel Blake worked on decrypting the message known as the “340 cipher” with the help of a University of Melbourne supercomputer called Spartan.
This is a file copy of a cryptogram sent to the San Francisco Chronicle in 1969 by the Zodiac Killer. A coded letter mailed to a San Francisco newspaper by the Zodiac serial killer in 1969 has been deciphered by a team of amateur sleuths from the United States, Australia and Belgium, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Friday, Dec. 11, 2020
The cracked cipher does not reveal a name as promised in separate letters by the Zodiac.
“It was such a long shot,” Dr. Samuel Blake said. “We tried several hundred thousand incorrect ways of solving the cipher and just by chance we happened to sort of stumble upon a fragment of how it could be solved and using that fragment we reverse engineered the entire solution and got the entire message out from the Zodiac.”
Blake also said he had been working on finding a solution to the cipher since contacting David Oranchak earlier this year.
“David Oranchak is from the United States and he’s been working on trying to solve this cipher in his spare time for 15 years which is a Herculean effort,” according to Blake. “I saw some of the videos that he’d put online promoting analyses that he’d done of this cipher and I thought they were excellent so I reached out to him I think about March of this year and it was sort of a way of getting through the Melbourne Covid lockdown was to play around with this in my spare time.”
The cracked cipher does not reveal a name as promised in separate letters by the Zodiac.
“It was such a long shot,” Dr. Samuel Blake said. “We tried several hundred thousand incorrect ways of solving the cipher and just by chance we happened to sort of stumble upon a fragment of how it could be solved and using that fragment we reverse engineered the entire solution and got the entire message out from the Zodiac.”
Blake also said he had been working on finding a solution to the cipher since contacting David Oranchak earlier this year.
“David Oranchak is from the United States and he’s been working on trying to solve this cipher in his spare time for 15 years which is a Herculean effort,” according to Blake. “I saw some of the videos that he’d put online promoting analyses that he’d done of this cipher and I thought they were excellent so I reached out to him I think about March of this year and it was sort of a way of getting through the Melbourne Covid lockdown was to play around with this in my spare time.”
Oh here's what that loser had to say:
According to code-breaking expert David Oranchak, the cipher’s text includes:
“I hope you are having lots of fun in trying to catch me. … I am not afraid of the gas chamber because it will send me to paradice (sic) all the sooner because I now have enough slaves to work for me.”
Entire article:
https://www.rochesterfirst.com/news/national-news/breaking-the-zodiac-killers-code/