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@Article{Gillogly:1980:BCD,
author = "James J. Gillogly",
title = "The {Beale Cypher}: {A} Dissenting Opinion",
journal = j-CRYPTOLOGIA,
volume = "4",
number = "2",
pages = "116--119",
month = apr,
year = "1980",
CODEN = "CRYPE6",
DOI = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0161-118091854979",
ISSN = "0161-1194 (print), 1558-1586 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0161-1194",
bibdate = "Mon Jun 30 15:38:30 MDT 2008",
bibsource = "http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/crypto/BIBALL.HTM;
http://www.dean.usma.edu/math/pubs/cryptologia/;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/cryptologia.bib",
URL = "http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a741902880~db=all~order=page",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "Cryptologia",
remark = "From
\path=http://www.wolfram.com/~lou/puzzles/r.p.answers.framed/cryptologyA01.html=:
The Beale ciphers are one of the greatest unsolved
puzzles of all time. About 100 years ago, a fellow by
the name of Beale supposedly buried two wagons-full of
silver-coin filled pots in Bedford County, near
Roanoke. There are local rumors about the treasure
being buried near Bedford Lake.\par
He wrote three encoded letters telling what was buried,
where it was buried, and who it belonged to. He
entrusted these three letters to a friend and went
west. He was never heard from again.\par
Several years later, someone examined the letters and
was able to break the code used in the second letter.
The code used the text from the Declaration of
Independence. A number in the letter indicated which
word in the document was to be used. The first letter
of that word replaced the number. For example, if the
first three words of the document were ``We hold these
truths'', the number 3 in the letter would represent
the letter t.\par
One of the remaining letters supposedly contains
directions on how to find the treasure. to date, no one
has solved the code. It is believed that both of the
remaining letters are encoded using either the same
document in a different way, or another very public
document.",
romanvolume = "IV",
}