Beale Ciphers Analyses by Ron Gervais
Created: February 25, 2003 - Last Update: November 2024
Freeware, analyses, and links to websites presenting hypotheses of the Beale Ciphers, including a summary of their arguments.
If you are not familiar with this story, you should start by reading The Beale Papers booklet. It is here in text form, and here as a photographic reproduction.
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Major Beale newsBeale Cipher #1, The Locality of the Vault, is now solved. Click here for the complete story Click here for details of the C1 solution. Click here for background research details. Click here for article in Popular Mechanics magazine |
| Preface
An amateur cryptanalyst, retired from the computer and telecom industries, with a background in math, I am intrigued by this story. The objective of this website is to fill a void: a repository of serious efforts to study and analyse the ciphers. Also included are some personal observations, and free text-analysis software. |
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Background information
Page 1 : BEALE CODES -- WERE THEY A HOAX?
Page 2 : Dr. Carl Hammer
Page 3 : THE BEALE CIPHER: A DISSENTING OPINION
Page 4 : The Last Haunting of Edgar Allan Poe
Page 5 : Free text analysis software - A cryptanalysis tool for the Beale enthusiast
Page 6 : An interesting crypto observation on the codes
Page 7: Main proofs that The Beale Papers is fiction
Page 8 : Notes on the Beale Ciphers
Page 9 : James Beverly Ward's application for copyright
Page 10 : The discovery of the source for The Beale Papers version of The Declaration of Independence
Page 11 : The Hart Papers
Page 12 : Suggestion for attacking C3
Page 13 : C3 and the signatures of the Declaration of Independence
Page 14: Special Acknowledgements
Page 15 : Links between The Beale Papers and The Declaration of Independence
Page 16 : The Freemasons and The Confederate Treasury
Page 17 : TREASURE magazine claims codes solved, treasure found
Page 18 : The Beale Cypher Association
Page 19 : What if... ? A collection of Beale code ideas
Page 20 : The Lynchburg fire of 1883 and The Beale Papers personalities genealogy
Page 21 : Benford's Law - A clue to the Beale ciphers?
Page 22 : Beale as Bamboozlement
Page 23 : The genuine booklet: The Beale Papers
Page 24 : The author of The Beale Papers
Page 25 : Jean Laffite, Privateer, and the Beale treasure
Page 26 : Solutions! We have cipher solutions!
Page 27 : How Sherman created C1
Page 28 : The smoking gun
Page 29 : C3: More typesetting wizardry?
Page 30 : Epilogue
Page 31 : A treasure hunter's discoveries
Page 33 : The signed confession
Page 34 : A persuasive new Beale explanation
Page 36 : The Knights of the Golden Circle
Page 38 : The Gillogly strings debunked
Questions? Comments? Suggestions? : Ron Gervais
