![]() The San Francisco Chronicle says the 340 Cipher was solved by a team of private code-breakers from the US, Australia and Belgium. The case, which is still open, was the subject of a 2007 thriller by Hollywood director David Fincher, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as cartoonist Robert Graysmith, who investigated the case and went to write two books about it. He's known to have killed at least five people, but once claimed to have killed at least three dozen. ![]() The Zodiac killer operated in northern California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. ![]() It got its name from the number of characters and symbols it contained - 340. The San Francisco Chronicle received what's been dubbed the '340 Cipher' on November 8, 1969. The first Zodiac Cipher that was decoded was known as the 408 Cipher, which has been solved by a Salinas school teacher and his wife.One of mysterious ciphers penned by the infamous Zodiac killer has been decoded, 51 years after it was sent to a San Francisco newspaper. Nevertheless, the FBI did not add any further comment out of respect to the loved ones left behind by the victims of the Zodiac Killer decades ago, especially as the cases are still ongoing and the law enforcement is still working to unmask the Zodiac and take him in for his crimes. Oranchak, a 46-year-old web designer who resides in Virginia, USA, has been working to solve Cipher 340 since 2006.Īfter cracking the coded message, the team sent their solution to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which sent an email to the Chronicle, confirming Oranchak's claim. Until now." FBI Confirms the Deciphered Message When I first started looking at the Zodiac ciphers all those years ago, I thought, 'Oh, I can just write a computer program and solve it,' but it's been kicking my a** all this time. "We've been sitting on the solution since last Saturday. "This is exciting," the amateur decoder said in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, the same newspaper the codes were initially sent to when the Zodiac was still active. In their video "Let's Crack Zodiac," the team showed how they broke the infamous cipher: by running around 65,000 simulations to get the right reading direction of the characters in the code. Oranchak broke the code with fellow amateur codebreakers Jarl Van Eycke, a warehouse operator from Belgium, and Sam Blake, a mathematician from Australia, with Oranchak saying he wouldn't have cracked the code without them. The amateur decoders hail from different parts of the world, and they have captured their journey of breaking Zodiac's Cipher 340 on video and uploaded it on Youtube to one of the coder's channels. Read More: Elon Musk Wants You to Watch 'Demolition Man,' a 90s Flick That Predicted Self-Driving Cars, Zoom, and MORE The Journey to Deciphering the Message I am not afraid of the gas chamber because it will send me to paradice all the sooner because I now have enough slaves to work for me." That wasn't me on the TV show which brings up a point about me. Nevertheless, a three-person group of amateur decoders claims they have finally deciphered the code.ĭavid Oranchak, one of the coders, shared part of the decoded text, which reads: "I hope you are having lots of fun in trying to catch me.
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