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meA team of crypto experts claims to have successfully deciphered a message from the notorious and yet unknown American serial killer “Zodiac-Killer”. As the three specialists announced on Friday, they deciphered one of the messages that the killer had sent to a local newspaper more than 50 years ago. The “Zodiac Killer” is blamed for at least five murders in Northern California in the 1960s; he himself claims to have killed 37 people. His identity is still unknown today.
According to the team, the message the killer sent to the San Francisco Chronicle in November 1969 contained no clues to his identity. Rather, it is boasting.
Consequently, the “Zodiac Killer” wrote, among other things: “I hope you have a lot of fun trying to catch me. I am not afraid of the gas chamber, because it will take me to paradise long before because now I have enough slaves to work for me. “
In a previous message, the encryption of which was easier to break, the famous killer had used similar phrases: “I like to kill because it is very fun,” he said. Again he was referring to the “slaves” whom he supposedly gathered to serve him in the afterlife.
The decoder team consists of American web designer David Oranchak, Australian mathematician Sam Blake, and Belgian logic expert Jarl Van Eykcke. It took years of work and the use of various computer programs to decipher the message made up of numbers and symbols.
Complex code, also known as “340 cipher” because it contains 340 characters, is read diagonally. When the bottom margin is reached, the reader should continue reading in the opposite top corner. According to experts, this type of encryption is described, among other things, in a US Army manual from the 1950s.
