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[Maiden Voyage]

BREAKING NEWS: The Zodiac’s “340 Cipher” has been solved |

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The message

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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

 

[Maiden Voyage]

Ted Cruz not available for comment.

 

[Slings and Arrows]

This is really cool.

It's a shame it's the ramblings of a mad man and not some secret to where he buried a box of money

 

[BigBooper]

My cipher is way better.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

That channel has more vids on the cypher. Here's ep 1:

 

[Rock And Roll]

Pretty cool this was finally solved!

I don't know why everyone says Ted Cruz is the zodiac killer when Dick Van Dyke admitted to it a few years back.

 

[Jill Valentine]

 

[Maiden Voyage]

Some comments on Reddit are pointing out the crib'ed words make more sense on their own as the ending, rather than jumbled in:

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 WILL BE AN EASY ONE.

IN PARADICE DEATH IS LIFE

 

[iconmaster]

TFW you go to the trouble to invent a cipher that can withstand cryptographers for half a century, but forget to enable spellcheck...

 

[TheMan]

Some comments on Reddit are pointing out the crib'ed words make more sense on their own as the ending, rather than jumbled in:

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 WILL BE AN EASY ONE.

IN PARADICE DEATH IS LIFE

Man that's chilling. This kind of this usually doesn't get to me but this was written by a bone fide murderer who believed in this enough to end many lives, one by one, by his own hand

 

[J-Roderton]

Creepy shit.

 

[bender]

Some comments on Reddit are pointing out the crib'ed words make more sense on their own as the ending, rather than jumbled in:

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 WILL BE AN EASY ONE.

IN PARADICE DEATH IS LIFE

This makes much more sense.

 

[Piku_Ringo]

He's still out there watching waiting

 

[Cocksman]

That’s pretty awesome! too bad he didn’t leave any ( apparent) clues to his identity. The asshole is almost certainly dead but hopefully this is a breakthrough for law enforcement.

 

[bender]

spellcheck...

Pre-spellcheck so dictionary.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

He's still out there watching waiting

Commiserating. Say it ain't so, I will not go. Turn the lights off. Carry me home.

 

[PSYGN]

Did he create some genius level of cyphering or is the difficulty inherent when making your own cypher after reading Cyphers for Dummies?

 

[jason10mm]

Maybe those typos were specifically chosen to make cracking the code much harder.

 

[Piku_Ringo]

Commiserating. Say it ain't so, I will not go. Turn the lights off. Carry me home.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

Did he create some genius level of cyphering or is the difficulty inherent when making your own cypher after reading Cyphers for Dummies?

Anyone can create ciphers of this complexity or greater. It's always more difficult to decipher.

 

[Piku_Ringo]

That’s pretty awesome! too bad he didn’t leave any ( apparent) clues to his identity. The asshole is almost certainly dead but hopefully this is a breakthrough for law enforcement.

 

[Dee Dah Dave]

Well done!

I always thought it would be another homophonic substitution cipher with a slight upgrade in difficulty from the 408. But there’s so many combinations of things you could do to make it hard to crack, and that’s before considering spelling / construction mistakes.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Dude is dead and in the ground more than likely though.

 

[BaneIsPain]

That is good message. Too bad, he is probably six foot in the ground.

 

[DragoonKain]

Zodiac is obsessed with paradise.

Does that mean hating him is Islamaphobia?

 

[just_some_nut]

Well that was anticlimactic. This shit's been popping up here and there over the past few decades, and now it ends with this drivel

 

[slugbahr]

This is really cool.

It's a shame it's the ramblings of a mad man and not some secret to where he buried a box of money

He buried it in paradice.

My cipher is way better.

I have no idea what you are talking about.

Anyone can create ciphers of this complexity or greater. It's always more difficult to decipher.

I'm having some trouble deciphering your statement.

 

[Tschumi]

Awesome!

 

[Aggelos]

Now that's awesome!




Now the film-makers of the flick Zodiac (2007), will have to find a way to patch this in the film.

 

[poppabk]

Man that's chilling. This kind of this usually doesn't get to me but this was written by a bone fide murderer who believed in this enough to end many lives, one by one, by his own hand

It honestly sounds pathetic to me, like those stupid jihadists and their 40 virgins but even sadder. Ironically his idea of paradise is basically how I conceptualize hell, where you are stuck with anyone and anything you ever killed.

 

[ipukespiders]

I am the Zodiac.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

The Paradice spelling mistake probably stumped code breakers for 50 of the years.

Amazingly, think how much time and money was spent on decrypting it over the past half century.

 

[Thurible]

It's nice when politicians are able to laugh at jokes about themselves, shows a healthy sense of humor. Reminds me of the "thanks Obama" joke a while back and Obama did a little skit on it.







On to the topic itself, can we learn anything new about the killer through this newly deciphered message? I know it's really just a malicious taunt, but does it reveal anything new?

 

[Azzurri]

I don't understand how the killer made up his own CODE, I think that is more impressive than actually decripting it personally.

 

[Dee Dah Dave]

I don't understand how the killer made up his own CODE, I think that is more impressive than actually decripting it personally.

He didn’t. They are homophonic substitution ciphers which you can learn how to make with any “ABC basic of code breaking” books from the library. Which is probably exactly what he did.

Its simply a bunch of symbols to represent the letters of the alphabet. Multiple symbols for each letter to make it harder to crack.

 

[Rasmagoric]

Wow this was fascinating, i watched the 5 episodes in a row.
I don't think the killer expected them to take 51 years to solve it. Or it never was his plan to get caught...

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

Dude is dead and in the ground more than likely though.

Ted Cruz is the zodiac killer.

 

[King of Foxes]

He mentioned the slaves in the afterlife before right? I swear this was already known

 

[Dacon]

Nigga couldn't even spell paradise wtf

 

[Aggelos]

Nigga couldn't even spell paradise wtf

He did it on purpose, my friend. He misspelled various words on purpose.

 

[Dacon]

He did it on purpose, my friend. He misspelled various words on purpose.

I know I was just making fun.