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Computers cannot think and therefor in a lot of ways they are at a disadvantage when cracking a cipher, which is why I don't want to use my program to crack Beale's ciphers but rather get a peek inside them without having to. This would be beneficial as it could be applied to other ciphers, not just Beale's.
With that said, lets look at just the first page of your solution. There are 143 numbers on the first page and 48 of those are mapped to two or more letters.
11 mapped to NS & A
15 mapped to M & H
32 mapped to O & J
33 mapped to R & T
37 mapped to L & I
43 mapped to A, O, P
44 mapped to E, I, S
66 mapped to E & C
68 mapped to R & U
75 mapped to E & O
77 mapped to E & J
78 mapped to D & T
81 mapped to D & T
96 mapped to E, S, O
98 mapped to O & N
99 mapped to L & E
116 mapped to E & N
117 mapped to A & S
121 mapped to D & L
136 mapped to H & R
That means roughly 33% of your solution doesn't fit an expected solution. I can't see any pattern in this so I wonder how Beale would have give this as a key to Morris. It would seems like he would have to give him just the plaintext which would defeat the entire purpose of enciphering it to begin with. For all I know your solution could be correct, but it does beg a lot of questions.
I do appreciate you sharing your decryption. It looks like a lot of time, effort, and intelligence went into making it. All of which have merit and meaning on their own.
I just wonder what Beale treasure hunters use for checks and balances. How much error is too much?
With that said, lets look at just the first page of your solution. There are 143 numbers on the first page and 48 of those are mapped to two or more letters.
11 mapped to NS & A
15 mapped to M & H
32 mapped to O & J
33 mapped to R & T
37 mapped to L & I
43 mapped to A, O, P
44 mapped to E, I, S
66 mapped to E & C
68 mapped to R & U
75 mapped to E & O
77 mapped to E & J
78 mapped to D & T
81 mapped to D & T
96 mapped to E, S, O
98 mapped to O & N
99 mapped to L & E
116 mapped to E & N
117 mapped to A & S
121 mapped to D & L
136 mapped to H & R
That means roughly 33% of your solution doesn't fit an expected solution. I can't see any pattern in this so I wonder how Beale would have give this as a key to Morris. It would seems like he would have to give him just the plaintext which would defeat the entire purpose of enciphering it to begin with. For all I know your solution could be correct, but it does beg a lot of questions.
I do appreciate you sharing your decryption. It looks like a lot of time, effort, and intelligence went into making it. All of which have merit and meaning on their own.
I just wonder what Beale treasure hunters use for checks and balances. How much error is too much?