"Once you come up with a hypothesis based on your intuition as a human, you can turn over a lot of grunt work to the computer."
"When you get a new code and look at it, the possibilities are nearly infinite," Knight said. Eventually from these lines of attack, the first meaningful words of German emerged: "Ceremonies of Initiation," followed by "Secret Section," as translated. One idea that eventually bore fruit was that abstract symbols with similar shapes in the Copiale Cipher represented the same letter or groups of letters - for instance, the symbols with the circumflex "^" over them were actually the letter "E." The researchers also detected an extraordinarily common three-symbol cluster, which they deduced represented the letters "cht," a common trio in German. "It was exciting to decode," Knight recalled.
It was the abstract symbols that held the message. "It took quite a long time and resulted in complete failure," Knight said.Īfter trying 80 languages, the cryptography team realized the Roman characters were "nulls" intended to mislead readers, somewhat like how pig Latin adds the suffix "ay" to words in an attempt to confuse listeners.
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