{"paperId": "fbd9b2641e5195b170eb0a4d6ffe4d40f91d7fa3", "externalIds": {"DBLP": "journals/cryptologia/Wase21", "MAG": "3091861890", "DOI": "10.1080/01611194.2020.1821409", "CorpusId": 225123831}, "title": "Benford\u2019s law in the Beale ciphers", "venue": "Cryptologia", "year": 2020, "citationCount": 3, "openAccessPdf": {"url": "", "status": null, "license": null, "disclaimer": "Notice: Paper or abstract available at https://api.unpaywall.org/v2/10.1080/01611194.2020.1821409?email=<INSERT_YOUR_EMAIL> or https://doi.org/10.1080/01611194.2020.1821409, which is subject to the license by the author or copyright owner provided with this content. Please go to the source to verify the license and copyright information for your use."}, "authors": [{"authorId": "2241203657", "name": "Viktor Wase"}], "abstract": "Abstract The Beale Papers is an 1885 pamphlet in which there are three ciphers, said to contain the location of a hidden treasure. In this paper the ciphers are viewed through Benford\u2019s Law. Statistical analysis show that the the ciphers deviate from the law\u2014cipher 2 less so than 1 & 3. Furthermore the numbers in the uncracked ciphers do not come from the same distribution as the cracked one, but it seems that the uncracked ciphers might share a similar random distribution. One possible explanation is that cipher 1 & 3 are faked in a similar manner, another is that they might share the same key."}