The FBI has surrendered, after nearly 12 years of failure has decided to seek help from the international community to try to decipher two handwritten notes found in the torrid summer of 1999 in the body of Ricky McCormick. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has chosen to hang on its website two documents, written in code to see if anyone is able to unravel what is now known as McCormick code. It looks like a fictional mystery own dancers Arthur Conan Doyle, but it is not. Among other things, these pieces of paper could clarify the strange death of the citizen.
On June 25, 1999, Ricky McCormick, 41, an ex-con, standing and living on social assistance, left the doctor's office. It was the last time anyone saw him alive. Five days later, a farmer found his body in a cornfield near San Luis (Missouri), 30 miles from home in McCormick. Still not clear about the causes of death, although the coroner observed that the victim was hit in the head
The murder of this man of color, a nobody without a job or benefits, I never would have transcended the world of no have been because one of the pockets of his trousers had two pieces of paper.
The FBI says: "The more than 30 lines of code using a maddening variety of letters, numbers, dashes and parentheses. McCormick had not even finished high school studies, but could read and write and was a smart kid. According to his family , McCormick had used this type of encrypted notes since I was a child, but apparently none of their relatives can decipher. "Researchers speculate that these notes McCormick wrote three days before his death.
Cryptanalysis Unit and FBI Fraud overturned on the challenge to clarify the code McCormick. He did not succeed , despite using the techniques and more sophisticated machines. The American Cryptogram Association also has the lowest result. Quite a conundrum.
Would not such a simple written McCormick fun of himself? No. Nobody invents a secret code for own pleasure, but for utility: to communicate something to someone, with intent that such language is known only to two people. And for anyone else. Something is an encrypted code. That's what I assume the FBI specialists. What he wanted to communicate McCormick unintelligible in the two notes he kept in his pants? And who?
The FBI decided on March 29, 2011 through Internet request the public's help to solve this enigma. The Head of the Cryptography and Anti-Fraud Analysis, Dan Olson, admitted that "the decryption routine procedures have hit a wall." To move forward, analysts need another sample of McCormick or any similar code that can be used to unravel. Something like that once meant finding Rosetta stone in 1799, to understand Egyptian hieroglyphics.
is the first time that the FBI calls for collaboration to discover a secret code. Who gets what, offers as a reward "the satisfaction of knowing that may have contributed to bringing to justice a murderer", plus the world famous will you achieve this feat.
Anyone with a brilliant idea, similar codes knows or has information about Ricky McCormick and friends, please contact the Laboratory Fraud Cryptanalysis and the FBI in Quantico (Virginia).
The city of San Luis, near where the body was found McCormick, is linked to another similar puzzle: St. Louis came from a letter sent in 1820 by a man named Thomas Jefferson Beale the owner of a hotel in Lynchburg (Virginia) him on the trail of a fortune in gold and silver buried him. Decoding needed to locate three scrolls. One of them was elucidated by the discovery that the key was in the Declaration of Independence of the United States, but the other still not decoded. And the treasure is hidden.
However, the greatest global challenge as the Voynich manuscript is a mysterious illustrated book of unknown contents, written in the fifteenth century in an unidentified alphabet. Has been the subject of intense study, but no one has managed to find or a word. This succession of failures in this text has become the Holy Grail of historical cryptology.
English National Cryptology Center, part of CNI, called the code's existence McCormick, but has not yet attempted to clarify the mystery. A spokesman said: "We have a very large volume of work decrypted, most referring to computer storage media used by ETA and Islamic Jihad. The most common are PGP or GPG files, which are used by businesses .. . and terrorists. Now there is hardly any secret codes on paper. " Another of the most common, especially in intelligence, is to hide messages between the thousands of pixels in a digital photograph, following the axiom that "the best place to hide a tree is the forest."
Who knows if the history of McCormick will not serve as inspiration for a writer. Like Arthur Conan Doyle used it in his days as an argument cryptographic notes of dancers, a story in which Sherlock Holmes Detective exposes some hieroglyphics that resemble a sort of puppets. Or as does Edgar Allan Poe The Gold Bug, a story that contains an elaborate cryptogram that leads the protagonists to a coveted treasure hidden long ago by a pirate on the island of Sullivan.
Source: http://www.elpais.com/articulo/report ... / 20110417elpdmgrep_10/Tes
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