Chapter 32 Chapter 12 Documentation

Things could be serious, which Joam D'Acosta and his family never imagined.Because—and those who have not forgotten the beginning of the story should know—the document was written in an undecipherable form, using one of the many common encryption schemes. But which one? This just needs to give full play to the full ingenuity of the human brain to discover. Before sending Benito and his partners away, Judge Jarry Gates wanted to keep the original documents, so he had someone copy them verbatim and check them properly.Give the copy to the two young men so they can show it to the prisoner.

Then, after making an appointment to meet the next day, the group resigned. They couldn't wait to see Joam da Costa, so they rushed towards the prison. In prison, I only had a quick meeting with the prisoners, and they told the whole story. Joam D'Acosta picked up the file and studied it intently.Then he shook his head and handed the document back to his son. "Perhaps," he said, "there is evidence in this document that I have never been able to produce! But if the evidence cannot be used by me, if the integrity of my life cannot prove my innocence, then my justice to mankind will not be able to prove my innocence." What do you expect, I have to resign myself to fate!"

Everyone has felt this point, if the document cannot be deciphered, the situation of the prisoner will be terrible! "We will find a way, Father!" Benito cried, "There is nothing that cannot be deciphered as long as we study this kind of document! Be confident... yes! Be confident! Give us back the documents that prove our innocence, and after guiding our hands to find them, Heaven will not refuse to guide our intellect to read them!" Joam D'Acosta shook the hands of Benito and Manoel, and the two young men left with great emotion and went straight back to the raft, where Jacquita was waiting for them.

On board, Yaquita immediately learned of the new accidents that had occurred in the past two days, how Torres' body surfaced, how the documents were found, and how the real culprit, the adventurer's accomplice, wrote this in a strange way. A document, no doubt in order that the document will fall into the hands of a third party, so that he will not be implicated. Of course, Lina also knew about this unexpected trouble, that Fragoso had discovered that Torres had been an old forest captain who belonged to the militia that protected the area around the Madeira Pass. "And what was it like when you met him?" asked the half-blood girl.

"It was when I was passing through Amazonas province, going from village to village to cut people's hair." Fragoso replied. "Then this scar?..." "This is how it happened: one day, when I came to the Aranas Mission, I had never seen Torres before, and he was having a quarrel with a fellow--a bunch of rascals!-- Later, the knife was used, and the captain of the forest was hit on the arm. But there was no doctor at the time, and I was responsible for bandaging his wound, so I knew him!" "Anyway," retorted the girl, "after all, what does it matter if you know what Torres did in the past? He's not really the culprit, and that doesn't help matters much!"

"No," replied Fragoso, "we will always understand this damn document! The truth of the innocence of Joam D'Acosta will be revealed!" That's exactly what Yaquita, Benito, Manoel and Mina hoped for.So the three of them locked themselves in the large cabin for living, pondering for a long time, trying to decipher this document. If that's their hope -- and it's important to emphasize that -- it's at least Judge Jarry Gates's hope as well. After the trial of Joam D'Acosta, the judge drew up a report.Joam D'Acosta was identified, and the report was sent to the Justice Department, so that he had every reason to think that the case was closed on his side.It's different now.

In fact, it should be said that after the documents were found, Judge Jarry Gates really encountered his expertise.He is an explorer of number combinations, an analyst of various interesting problems, such as anagrams, illegible words, letter combinations and other guessing experts. Obviously, it is time to see his real skills. However, the thought of the contents of this document exonerated Joam D'Acosta, and he felt all his analytical instincts activated.Now there is this password file in front of me!He just wanted to guess what it meant.No one who knew him doubted that he would forget his food and sleep for it.

After the young man left, Judge Jarry Gates sat in his study, closed the door to thank visitors, and spent several hours quietly alone. He had spectacles on his nose and a snuff box on the table. Use your brain's agility and intelligence.Holding the document, he fell into deep thought, talking to himself after a while.Your Honor is an extrovert, and prefers to speak out his own thoughts. "We must pay attention to the method," he said to himself, "if we don't talk about the method, there will be no logic; without logic, there will be no success." Then he picked up the document and went through it from beginning to end, though he couldn't understand anything.

The document consists of a hundred or so lines, divided into six paragraphs. "Yeah!" Yari Gates thought for a moment, and said, "If you want me to think about it section by section, it's a waste of precious time. Instead, you should choose the most critical section. However, if you don't How could the last sentence be that? For the last sentence necessarily sums up the whole case. Proper nouns, including the name Joam Dacosta, can lead me to the right path, and, if the name appears Somewhere in the document, the last paragraph is clearly required." The judge's reasoning is quite logical.There is no doubt that he has every reason to first use his code-breaking talents in the last paragraph.

This passage is as follows—because it is necessary to put it before the reader's eyes, so as to show how an analyst will use his intelligence to discover the truth of the matter. (Phyjslyddqfdzxgasgzzqqehxgkfndrxujugiocytdxvksbxhhuypohdvyrymhuhpuydk joxphetozsletnpmvffovpdpajxhyynojyggaymepynfuplnmvlyfgsuzmpiztlbqgyugspeubv nrcredgruzblrmxyuhqhpzdrrgcroheqpxufivvrplphonthvddqfhqsntzhhhnfepmqkyuuexk togzgkyuumfvijdqdpzjqsykrplxhxqrymvklohhhotozvdksppsuvjh. d. ) First, Judge Jarry Gates noted that each line in the document was neither word-separated nor punctuated.This situation only makes reading more difficult.

"But," he murmured, "see if a few letters can be joined together to form a word. The word I am talking about is the case where the number of consonants matches the number of vowels and can be pronounced!...First of all, at the beginning , saw the word phy... then, the word gas... yo!... ujugi... isn't that the name of that African city on the edge of Tanganyika? The city and the thing what's the matter?...after that, it's ypo. is it greek? then rym...puy...jor...phetoz...jyggay...suz...gruz...before red...let...ok !Those are two English words!... Then, ohe...syk...ah! And rym...and then, oto!..." Jarry Gates dropped the document and thought for a while. "I've skimmed through it, and all these words are strange!" he mused to himself. "Actually, there's nothing to show their origins! Some look like Greek, others like Dutch, some like English, some like nothing at all—not to mention a string of consonants, It makes people unable to pronounce! In short, it is not easy to decipher this code!" The judge's fingers began to play a kind of wake-up drum on the desk, as if to awaken his dormant intellect. "Then let's see how many letters there are in this paragraph!" he said. He counted with a pencil in his hand. "276!" he said. "Okay, now let's see in what proportion these different letters are combined." It will take a little more time to figure it out.Jarry Gates picked up the file again; then took a pencil, and wrote down each letter one by one in alphabetical order.After a quarter of an hour, he came up with the following table: a=3 times n=9 times b=4 times o=12 times c=3 times p=16 times d=16 times q=16 times e=9 times r=12 times f=10 times s=10 times g=13 times t=8 times h=23 times u=17 times i=4 times v=13 times j=8 times x=12 times k=9 times y=19 times l=9 times z=12 times m=9 times Total - 276 "Ha ha!" exclaimed Jarry Gates, "the first discovery, which really surprised me: that is, in this one paragraph alone, all the letters of the alphabet are used! That's rather strange! Because if you start with It is very rare that every single letter of the alphabet appears in random lines of a book containing 276 letters! In any case, it may be a coincidence." Then, the judge started to use another logic: The more important question is to see if the ratio of vowels to consonants is normal. The judge picked up the pencil again, singled out the vowels, and worked out the following: a=3 times e=9 times i=4 times o=12 times u=17 times y=19 times Total - 64 vowels. "So, in this paragraph, minus 64 vowels, we are left with 212 consonants! This ratio is normal, that is, about one-fifth of the ratio, just like there are 6 out of 25 letters in the alphabet. The vowels are the same. Therefore, this document is likely to be written in our language, but the meaning of each letter has been changed. If there is a regularity in the transformation of letters, for example, if b is always replaced by l, o always uses v, g uses k, v uses r, and so on, if I still can't understand this document, I'm willing to give up this Manao judge! Alas! What are you waiting for, press Do the work of that great analyst of genius who called himself 'Kandergar Poe'!" Jarry Gates said this alluding to a short story by a famous American novelist, which is a masterpiece.Who hasn't read The Scarab? In this short story, a cipher consisting of numbers, letters, algebraic symbols, asterisks, periods, and commas is broken by a truly mathematical method and finally broken in an extraordinary way. Admirers of talent will never forget it. Yes, breaking that American code was only about discovering a treasure, and now it's a matter of life and honor!So deciphering this cipher number should be interesting. The Judge, who had reread "his" The Scarab, was familiar with the method of analysis used by Kandegar Poe, and he was determined to borrow it here.In this way, as he said, so long as the function or meaning of each letter remained the same, sooner or later he would be able to read the document concerning Joam D'Acosta. "What did Kandegar Poe do then?" he mused. "First, he started by finding symbols—there are only letters—letters, which are often repeated in cipher files. And in this file , I consider the letter h to be a symbol, since it appears twenty-three times. Such a large proportion alone presupposes that b does not represent h. On the contrary, since I assume that the document is written in Portuguese , then, this should represent the letter with the highest frequency in our language. In English and French, it may be e; in Italian, it will be i or a; in Portuguese, it should be a or o. Such a Come on, unless there is a later change, let us assume that h stands for a or o." So Judge Jarry Gates went on to find out which letter appeared most frequently in the document after the h.In this way, he listed the following table: h=23 times y=19 times u=17 times dpq=16 times gv=13 times orxz=12 times fs=10 times eklmn=9 times jt=8 times bi=4 times ac=3 times "So the letter a appears only three times," exclaimed the Judge, "it should have appeared the most! Well! That is absolutely sufficient proof that it has changed its meaning! Now, after the a or the o, after the Which letters are most commonly used in our language! Let's find out." Judge Jarry Gates has invested in new research with his outstanding intelligence and insight.This time, he just imitated the American novelist, who was an outstanding analyst. He could only recompile the alphabet corresponding to the code symbols through simple induction or comparison, so that he could read it smoothly. password. The judge followed suit, sure that he was not inferior to his famous teacher.Since he used to play anagrams, phalanxes, rectangles, and other kinds of anagrams in which the alphabet was randomly scrambled, and was used to solving puzzles with mental or written calculations, the judge was quite proficient in such puzzle games. So this time, without much effort, he was able to arrange the frequencies of these letters in order, with the vowels first and the consonants last. After working for 3 hours, an alphabet was listed in front of him. If done right, the alphabet will reveal the true meaning of the letters in the file. Now just map the letters in the table to the file one by one. Before the comparison, Judge Jarry Gates was a little agitated.After hours of unrelenting effort, he was so impatient to find the answer to the crossword puzzle that he seemed to be on the verge of solving it, the judge was completely immersed in this kind of spiritual enjoyment-the pleasure in it is far beyond our imagination. . "Let's try it out," he said. "Really, I'd be damned if I couldn't figure it out!" Judge Jarrigates took off his glasses, wiped the lenses blurred by the heat from his eyes, put them back on, and went back to his desk. With the specially made alphabet in one hand and the document in the other, he began to write the actual letters below the first line of the paragraph, which, according to his idea, should correspond exactly to each letter on the cipher. After the first line he wrote the second, then the third, the fourth, and so on until the end of the paragraph. It was so ingenious that he didn't even want to see if the letter combinations formed comprehensible words while he was writing.No!In this first step his mind rejects this verification.What he wanted was the joy of reading from the beginning to the end in one breath. The original text came out. "Let's read and read!" he cheered. So he read it. God!It's so awkward!A few lines of his post-formed alphabet mean no more than a document!Another string of letters, that's all, and the letters don't form a word, so meaningless!In short, it is also completely a heavenly book!