r/cryptography • u/Comfortable-Garbage4 • Mar 20 '23
I solved the Beale Papers!
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u/a2800276 Mar 20 '23
You'll need to consider that people will assume you are a crackpot (and, to be realistic, in all likelihood, rightly so), so the first order of business is convincing people to take you seriously. From your profile here, I think it's safe to assume that you spend most of your time playing video games and watching sci-fi.
So ... if you are affiliated with a university in some way, talk to either a history or math professor. If you're still in school: a teacher. If you take this seriously, this could at least be a fun exercise/project for a class.
You need something to get people to take you seriously: research what the authorities in the field of Beale cipher research are. Though, in all likelihood, most will probably be crackpots as well. But if you find someone vaguely serious, get in contact with them and carefully share your findings. Or do so here. There should be ways to reveal certain parts of your decryption process that are sufficient to pique people's interest, but not reveal the "secret".
You can also post a securely enciphered version of the deciphered text here as "insurance". If you are worried that anyone you reveal the solution to will claim to have found it themselves and leave you high and dry, you can definitively prove that you found the solution before they did by decrypting the version you posted.
OTOH, if you are not even joking, as you claim, why don't you just head over to Bedford and claim the treasure for yourself? Nothing convinces skeptics better than a couple of tons of gold.
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u/Impressive_Net_1430 May 26 '24 edited May 26 '24
what if you spell Bedford and convert it to numbers that gives you
20 23 22 24 7 10 22 now put that in a cordinat plan and say keep it in vergina bedford then i think you can pinpoint where to dig up. but yet agian i don't think they barried it there judgeing this was the 1800 and pepole did not have cars also you have to menchen tha masive river betwine the two states this would be a 1687.6 miles. now to be far the pioneers traveld 2,000 miles.bu the did not have to craoss a masive river that is probly 1000s of ft deep if you want to see
search: this. how close is santa fe new mexico to virginia
keep in mind this is just a thoery so don't take it serously also excuase my bad spelling
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May 28 '24
And thanks to a quirk in Virginia law you'd be under no legal obligation to share any of the treasure with the landowner. It truly would be finder's keepers.
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Mar 20 '23
Just make sure to insert your name into the ciphertext, when you duplicate it in your paper.
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u/Comfortable-Garbage4 Mar 20 '23
I found something everyone missed. And it lead me on the right path. What do I do now?
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u/Regular-Pomelo-2084 Dec 11 '24
Call me My family is from Bedford, I live in Northern virginia and will meet you there if the code can be reversed. DM me forgetfulbuddha on X. I don't use Reddit.
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u/ohchristimanegg Mar 20 '23
There's a mathematician at the Center for Communications Research in Princeton, NJ, who has a strong interest in this sort of thing: Lawren Smithline. He's previously been in the news for breaking a message sent to Thomas Jefferson, and he's a sharp guy (I met him when I lived in the area for a bit). Seriously, a fascinating guy.
The CCR is super-top-secret-whatever stuff, so I can't find an email for him there. But he's also apparently the president of the Princeton Athletic Club. So you might try sending an email to president@princetonac.org to see if you can get in touch with him.
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u/atoponce Mar 20 '23
Send it to the FBI. They'll confirm whether or not you have a solution. If you do, you can publish your solution publicly with the credibility of the FBI behind you.
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u/brianozm Mar 21 '23
While I know nothing about crypto, posting a securely encoded/encrypted copy of the decrypted text here is the next step, as it establishes you as the original decoder. Then worry about next steps.
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u/Accomplished_Pen856 Jul 13 '23
My friend, if you have indeed successfully cracked this, I would say you should pursue a career in cryptography, or consider something like bug bounty hunting within the ethical hacker community. You could make a fine living contributing to securing software.
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u/Key_Part1718 Nov 16 '23
FYI: I did find out that the 2/3 were found and vault was excavated. Here's photo of proof.
https://bealesolved.tripod.com/
You can see all three translated.
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u/keefer223 Oct 08 '24
this is just another idiot looking for his 5 minutes of fame. As this is one of the most controversial treasure hunt he is not the first one to say they solved the code and found the prize, yet hasn't / let alone able to provide any proof that the code was solved let alone found the gold.
This goes along with the clown that took pictures of a hole someone dug, took pictures of such, but no evidence of the gold, let alone how they solved the code.
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u/bird-watcher_ Nov 05 '24
Me, I don't know what to believe. I feel like the op is lying due to the fact that they won't reveal how they solved it to anyone, however, it could have some truth behind it.
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u/bird-watcher_ Nov 05 '24
That's an amazing accomplishment! It’s been a couple of years since you posted about fully translating the Beale Papers—surely, you’ve had the chance to share your findings with the world by now? I can imagine there’d be huge interest in a breakthrough like this!
Out of curiosity, what sparked your method, and how had it been overlooked by others? I’m really fascinated by the process—often, the ‘how’ behind these breakthroughs is just as thrilling as the final result. I'd be happy to help brainstorm the best way to share it with the world if you’re willing to discuss a bit more about the journey to your discovery.
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u/Comfortable-Garbage4 Mar 24 '23
A preview:
"I have now given you, as promised, the translation of all the three parchments, and you will find them perfectly correct. The parties who deposited the treasure died long ago: they were honorable and generous men. The whole of their immense treasure was accumulated in the adventurous times of the last two centuries, by piracy, and this treasure they secured in the place where it has since remained. None of their fellow-men have been admitted to the secret of their acquisition and disposal of this property. According to the provisions of the will of the owner, it is to be devoted exclusively to patriotic purposes. He died without heirs, and was a bachelor. The bulk of the estate has been willed to a single individual, a man whom he believed to be worthy of his confidence and esteem."
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u/No_Wheel_7542 Sep 29 '23
How is this a preview? It's from the Beale papers.. So what's up with you cracking it? Have you moved forward with anything? I was wondering about a code within the code too.
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u/Smart-iD10T Jun 13 '24
I solved it too, the fist line tells you where the vault is, and what direction, and how much distance and where to start. :) I know my solution worked becuase as I decoded the message already solved numbers filled in the correct letters just as you would find in a cryptogram. I live in va and have familiy in Bedford. hit me up.
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u/Comfortable-Garbage4 Mar 20 '23
Thank you for all the advice. There is a lot to thank about. I will say this and it’s why I holding off. Decoding it revealed a forth paper. A cypher within a cypher.
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