Comments on: Built in Code in Da Vinci Judgement

By: sciencebase

sciencebase — Tue, 02 May 2006 07:41:16 +0000

The Daily Telegraph had a feature about the Da Vinci Code Code on Saturday that claimed the solution is not so straightforward and that deliberate typos, missing z’s and other anomalies point to something yet more intriguing than has so far been revealed…but then it was rival paper The Guardian that broke the story of the Code Code, so maybe they’re in denial.

By: sciencebase

sciencebase — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:43:43 +0000

Unfortunately, we were beaten to it…

From the BBC:

The message read: “Smithy Code Jackie Fisher who are you Dreadnought.”

The judge admires Admiral Jackie Fisher, who developed battleship HMS Dreadnought, which launched in February 1906, 100 years before the case began.

In a statement, Mr Justice Smith said: “The message reveals a significant, but now overlooked event that occurred virtually 100 years to the day of the start of the trial.”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4953948.stm

By: Boris Berman

Boris Berman — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 13:59:23 +0000

If you read Nr. 52 of the judgment, the following phrase catches the eye:
“The key to solving the conundrum posed by this judgment is in reading HBHG and DVC.” Intereting, eh?

I tried various variants of the Vigenere cipher using different keys like HBHGDVC, HOLYBLOODHOLGRAILDAVINCICODE and SMITHYCODE, without any results. Any ideas?

PS: interesting coincidence: The “smithycode” takes 30 characters, so does “HOLYBLOODHOLGRAILDAVINCICODE”. May be a link…