

Read More: Elon Musk Wants You to Watch 'Demolition Man,' a 90s Flick That Predicted Self-Driving Cars, Zoom, and MORE The Journey to Deciphering the Message 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." That wasn't me on the TV show which brings up a point about me. LIFE WILL BE AN EASY ONE IN PARADICE DEATHĭr 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.Įventually a solution that drew out a message that included the phrase "GAS CHAMBER" was revealed.Nevertheless, a three-person group of amateur decoders claims they have finally deciphered the code.ĭavid Oranchak, one of the coders, shared part of the decoded text, which reads: "I hope you are having lots of fun in trying to catch me. I AM NOT AFRAID BECAUSE I KNOW THAT MY NEW LIFE IS WHERE EVERYONE ELSE HAS NOTHING WHEN THEY REACH PARADICE I HOPE YOU ARE HAVING LOTS OF FUN IN TRYING TO CATCH MEīECAUSE IT WILL SEND ME TO PARADICE ALL THE SOONERīECAUSE I NOW HAVE ENOUGH SLAVES TO WORK FOR ME
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"Jarl's fantastic program, azdecrypt, was essential in this process." A deciphered section of the code "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. That such a macabre phase should pop up in a sea of noise warranted further attention. "However, one of these searches uncovered a surprising combination of words: GAS CHAMBER. This search turned up - more or less - nothing," he said.

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"During the year we tested, by trial and error, around 650,000 different reading directions through the cipher.
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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. 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. Loading.ĭr 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. 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. 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 cipher bears a distinctive circle with a cross through the middle and was sent to the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper on Novemby a man who called himself "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.
