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It is one thing to say 'Here's a close-up showing microcode within the letters of the slip..' and quite another to say, 'And here's what it all means..'
What I have done is attempt to gather all of the code that I could in the word TAMAM, the first word in the phrase. I intend to move to the word SHUD as soon as I have this first word fully decoded.
THE DECRYPT:
T = Upright = 637952 .............T Cross = 8452 G 753324
A = Curve = 94654 Slope = 5469R
M = 1 = 329329 2 = 5X5872500 3 = 2XN4339
A = Curve = 7638548 Slope = 495258
M = 1 = 4M854 2 = 89676 3 = 647835459
I brought all the letters together into a continuous string but in sets of 5, there are 3 exceptions as indicated.
637952 8452G 75332 4 94654 5469R 32932 9 5X587 2500 2XN43 39763 85484 95258 4M854 89676 64783 5459
The corrected string is as follows:
637952 8452G 75332 49465 45469 R3293 295X5 87250 02XN4 33976 38548 49525 84M85 48967 66478 35459
UPDATE
23rd August. I went back and worked on the first two letters of TAMAM and I had missed the opening number which was a 6. Thus the string now reads:
637952 8452G 75332 49465 45469 R3293 295X5 87250 02XN4 33976 38548 49525 84M85 48967 66478 35459
The first task was to ascertain which cipher might be in use. Thankfully there are some useful tools available online and I used one that has a cipher identifier capability. It's one I have used before, and here's the link to the first step of identifying the cipher:
https://www.dcode.fr/cipher-identifier
The tool suggested a few options to choose from and I chose the MORBIT Cipher. This is an 'over encryption' of Morse code and it seemed to me to be a good starting point. You can read about Morbit on the link shown. The tool was looking for a 9-character key which coincidentally is the number of letters in the phrase TAMAM SHUD
Down to business, what did the decoder come up with, there was a real surprise in the results as you can see.:
| A | A | D | H | M | M | S | T | U |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| .- 1 | -. 2 | // 3 | /. 4 | ./ 5 | -- 6 | -/ 7 | .. 8 | /- 9 |
MTBI KE NETP I WT NT NNEUDNE MM S SENDIH S��AI E I T
You can immediately see some recognisable words, BIKE, SEND, WT (Wireless Transmission? ), and NT (Northern Territory?)
But the real surprise came with the 2 groups of letters that I have underlined, T(N)BI NETP. They are 7 letters found in the Code page line that spells out MTBIMPANETP. Importantly, they are in the same sequence.
Thus in this decrypt analysis, the tools show the following letters that match:
M T B I M P A N E T P
M_ _ _ MPA
1. It is possible that I have misread some of the microcode letters/numbers. I will go back and see if I can get a clearer view of the individual code letters. I won't be able to do that today but I will get to it as soon as I can.
At this point, it appears to me that we have found valid code letters and decrypted 7 of them out of a possible 11.
The Torn Slip code has been found and it is cracked. Obviously, there's more work ahead but it is cracked. We know for certain that there always was a hidden code in the torn slip and the implications are enormous.
The August 23rd update now gives us another letter from the code page, it now decrypts as:
That now gives us a decrypt of:
| A | A | D | H | M | M | S | T | U |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| .- 1 | -. 2 | // 3 | /. 4 | ./ 5 | -- 6 | -/ 7 | .. 8 | /- 9 |
That gives us 8 out of the 11 possible letters, being MTBI - - - NETP. The missing letters are MPA
NEXT STEPS:
Next, we need to revisit the TAMAM-coded letters and numbers and assess the original effort and then press on with the decrypt of the code within the word SHUD.The eagle-eyed will spot that there are more decoded letters than there are characters in the string, the reason may be related to the encryption method.
The ramifications are significant. A real and substantiated breakthrough clearly showing a direct relationship between the torn slip and the code page and by default with the Nurse via her telephone number.
ReplyDeleteThe torn slip still exists and it is in safe hands. It was loaned to Adelaide University in 2010 I believe and they took a series of high resolution photographs of it but they were looking to match the paper fibre types with those of the book, and that's another question to be pursued separately.
What they did not, apparently, do is to look for concealed information, that needs an entirely different approach.
I have copies of the photographs taken by the University.
Get ready for the bleatings GC, mostly from those who have never cracked any codes or solved any mysteries :)
ReplyDeleteTo be honest I only get one or two who might be categorised as bleaters. And to be fair it is a complex subject that we deal with here. Will put a link up for those who would like to know more about this particular cipher.
ReplyDeleteHere's a link to a site where you can learn about the Morbit code:
ReplyDeletehttps://toebes.com/codebusters/Samples/Solving_Morbit.htm:
It's quite logical and not too difficult to understand. When you think about it, it had be something that was easy to understand for those working i the Intelligence field.
Morbit cipher was first described in 1960. It wasn't around in the 1940s.
ReplyDeleteMorbit was a simplified version of 'fractionated Morse'. It was in use in 1910. Between 1910 and 1960 many variations of fractionated morse were developed and used by numerous agencies. What this cipher does is to translate the original text into a string of numbers. Hence the thought that this cipher was, at the time ideal for 'numbers stations' use. Bottom line is that the 'dcode' site detected that the number string found in the letters on the Tamam Shud slip was probably from a Morbit type cipher. Hope this clarifies it for you. Will post a link for Frationated Cipher.
ReplyDeleteAn update in the post. I had missed the number 6 out of the string. It was the first number and easily missed.
ReplyDeleteThe result is that we picked up one more letter, the first letter M. So we now have MTBI _ _ _ NETP. Ware missing the letters MPA.
Before anyone asks, it's not as simple as changing a number over. It's quite a smart code.
What puzzles me is that the micro code you see, I also see. Yet no other blog has followed through on it and it's a real breakthrough in the case. Why?
ReplyDeleteThere's no big deal, the others won't publish anything about it because it totally puts them in the shade and they wouldn't want to be seen as not having found it themselves, so they resorted to attacking it and me personally and that had been the situation for some years. No longer a problem now though.
ReplyDeleteThe more I examine the nature of these codes and the concealment methods used, the more I realise how sophisticated for their time, they were. A tiny piece of paper torn from a book, with microcode inscripted into two words Tamam Shud. That torn slip was rolled up tight and pushed well down into a waist band fob pocket such that it would have been hard to discriminate between that rolled up paper and the seam of the pocket. The inscription on that paper was encrypted with a particular cipher that relied on morse code symbols and was only accessible by entering a 9 letter key phrase. The phrase was TamamShud. And what did the first part of this encrypted message tell us? It gave us these letters:
ReplyDeleteMTBI _ _ _ NETP
Those are 8 letters from a line on the code page that read in full:
MTBIMPANETP.