“The Zodiac Killer case remains an ongoing investigation for the FBI San Francisco division and our local law-enforcement partners.” “The FBI is aware that a cipher attributed to the Zodiac Killer was recently solved by private citizens,” Cameron Polan, spokeswoman for the FBI’s San Francisco office told The Chronicle. The group has been officially recognized by the FBI for breaking the cipher.
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“I HOPE YOU ARE HAVING LOTS OF FUN IN TRYING TO CATCH ME THAT WASNT ME ON THE TV SHOW WHICH BRINGS UP A POINT ABOUT ME 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 WHERE EVERYONE ELSE HAS NOTHING WHEN THEY REACH PARADICE SO THEY ARE AFRAID OF DEATH I AM NOT AFRAID BECAUSE I KNOW THAT MY NEW LIFE IS LIFE WILL BE AN EASY ONE IN PARADICE DEATH” We looked at different possible ways you could read the cipher-what other reading directions could they have taken in terms of trying to write it out-and we then ran them through supercomputers and looked for a solution in that direction.”Īccording to Oranchak and team, the message reads:
“What we did was a very different approach to that. “There’s been a lot of solutions in the past that have required artistic creativity and a lot of bending and massaging of the cipher in order to get it to make a few legible words… then something like a sentence, and often then the name of somebody who could be associated with the case,” Blake said. He explained the appeal of Oranchak’s approach as “algorithmic,” in the interview. And then…we just started to piece it together.” I got serious about it in March of this year, and we spent a lot of time on it between March and now, just going through, having no success, no success, no success. “So I reached out to him originally through a YouTube comment, and then we got chatting, and it went from there. “When I watched those, I thought ‘This is a really good analytical approach that he’s taken to try to solve this.’ And I sort of saw a couple of things that I thought might be interesting for him to try,” Blake told Vice in a recent interview. Building off Oranchak’s work, Australian-based mathematician Sam Blake calculated that there were 650,000 possible ways to read the code, and Jarl Van Eycke, whose day job is as a warehouse operator in Belgium, wrote the code-breaking software, according to a Vice report and interview with Oranchak.
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Oranchak made a series of YouTube videos about about the cipher which attracted the others to the project.
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David Oranchak, a web designer based in Virginia, has been trying to solve it for 14 years - but a breakthrough remote collaboration with other code breakers was the key. This cipher was sent to the offices of the San Francisco Chronicle in in 1969. But the second, the 340 Cipher, named after its 340 characters, was trickier to figure out - until this week, almost 50 years later, when an unlikely team of cryptographers broke the code.
The still-unnamed murderer sent a series of four coded messages to local newspaper outlets, bragging about his crimes and containing cryptic icons, which earned him the moniker “Zodiac”.
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The Zodiac serial killer is believed to have murdered at least five people - and likely more - in and around the Northern California area in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
And while the name of the elusive serial killer remains hidden, the breakthrough represents a triumph for cryptology and the basic building blocks of cybersecurity - access control and segmentation. A remote team of three hobbyist cryptologists have solved one of the Zodiac Killer’s cipher after a half century.
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