Книга шифров. Тайная история шифров и их расшифровки

We hold these truths to be self-evident, ⁸⁰that all men are created equal, that they are endowed ⁹⁰y their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these ¹⁰⁰are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; That to ¹¹⁰secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their ¹²⁰just powers from the consent of the governed; That whenever ¹³⁰any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it ¹⁴⁰is the right of the people to alter or to ¹⁵⁰abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its ¹⁶⁰foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such ¹⁷⁰form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect ¹⁸⁰their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments ¹⁹⁰long established should not be changed for light and transient ²⁰⁰causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are ²¹⁰more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to ²²⁰right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are ²³⁰accustomed.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, ²⁴⁰pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them ²⁵⁰under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their ²⁶⁰duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new ²⁷⁰Guards for their future security. Such has been the patient ²⁸⁰sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity ²⁹⁰which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. ³⁰⁰The history of the present King of Great Britain is ³¹⁰a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in ³²⁰&direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these ³³⁰States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a ³⁴⁰candid world.

_{Рис. 14 Первые три абзаца Декларации Независимости; у каждого десятого слова поставлен номер. Декларация является ключом для дешифрования второго шифра Биля.}

Профессиональные криптоаналитики также старались напасть на след сокровища Биля. Герберт О. Ярдли, основавший в конце Первой мировой войны Бюро шифров США (известный как американский «черный кабинет»), был заинтригован шифрами Биля, точно так же, как и полковник Уильям Фридман — фигура первой величины в американском криптоанализе в первой половине двадцатого столетия. Ярдли, когда возглавлял Службу радиоразведки, включил шифры Биля в программу обучения, возможно, потому, что, как однажды сказала его жена, он считал, что шифры обладают «дьявольской привлекательностью, специально предназначенной, чтобы заманить неосторожного читателя».