Beim Amoklauf von Highland Park wurden am 4. Juli 2022 sieben Menschen getötet. Der mutmaßliche Täter hatte zuvor eine 27-seitige verschlüsselte Nachricht im Internet veröffentlicht. Sie ist bisher nicht gelöst.

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Am 4. Juli, dem Nationalfeiertag, gab es in den USA wieder einmal einen Amoklauf. Der 22-jährige Robert Crimo erschoss in Highland Park bei Chicago sieben Menschen und verletzte mindestens 30 Menschen. Die Tat fand während eines Umzugs anlässlich des Nationalfeiertags statt, die Opfer waren Teilnehmer und Zuschauer. Crimo wurde acht Stunden nach der Tat verhaftet.

 

Das Arcturus-Kryptogramm

David Oranchak, der Cipherbrain-Lesern vor allem als einer der drei Löser der zweiten Zodiac-Nachricht bekannt ist, hat mich darauf aufmerksam gemacht, dass der mutmaßliche Täter bereits vor der Tat eine verschlüsselte Nachricht verbreitet hat. Genau genommen handelt es sich dabei um ein ganzes Buch mit 27 chiffrierten Seiten, das den Titel “Arcturus” trägt. Die erste dieser Seiten liest sich wie folgt:

Quelle/Source: Crimo

Die folgenden 26 Seiten sehen sehr ähnlich aus. Das Arcturus-Kryptogramm, wie ich es nennen werde, ist also eine ziemlich lange Zahlenfolge ohne erkennbare Struktur.

Crimo hat dieses Buch auf Amazon angeboten. Dies ist nicht besonders schwierig, meinen Versutus-Comic-Band habe ich ebenfalls auf diese Weise veröffentlicht. Dave Oranchak hat das Arcturus-Buch dankenswerterweise kostenlos auf seiner Webseite als PDF zugänglich gemacht. Auch eine Transkription ist bereits verfügbar. Natürlich habe ich das Arcturus-Kryptogramm (an Position 00116) in meine Encrypted Book List aufgenommen.

Wie man sieht, enthält das Arcturus-Buch außer dem Kryptogramm, dem Titel und einigen Amazon-Daten kaum Informationen. Das folgende Symbol ist die einzige Illustration:

Quelle/Source: Crimo

 

Was steckt dahinter?

Weitere Informationen zum Arcturus-Kryptogramm kann man einigen weiteren Werken entnehmen, die Crimo im Internet verbreitet hat. Das folgende Video ist anscheinend nach der Tat entstanden:

Auf Reddit gibt es bereits einige interessante Diskussionsbeiträge zum Arcturus-Kryptogramm. Die Lösung ist aber wohl bisher nicht bekannt.

Ich gehe davon aus, dass wir in den nächsten Tagen und Wochen noch einiges über diese Geschichte hören werden. Über neue Informationen oder sonstige Anmerkungen würde ich mich freuen. Vielleicht gelingt es einem Leser sogar, das Arcturus-Kryptogramm zu dechiffrieren.


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Kommentare (21)

  1. #1 Norbert
    15. Juli 2022

    Ein paar erste Anmerkungen zur Transkription:
    – Der Inhalt von Seite 1 bis 9 wiederholt sich exakt auf den Seiten 10-18 und noch einmal auf S. 19-27. Das eigentliche Kryptogramm scheint also 9 Seiten, 9 x 38 Zeilen und 9 x 38 x 86 = 29.412 Zeichen lang zu sein.
    – An einer Stelle erscheint ein Apostroph statt einer Ziffer: Seite 2 (im pdf Seite 4), vorletzte Zeile, viertletztes Zeichen.
    – Laut Transkript gibt es noch ein weiteres Sonderzeichen ($) auf Seite 4 (im pdf Seite 6), Anfang 7. Zeile. Aber im pdf liest man an dieser Stelle eine 6, da scheint das Transkript also falsch zu liegen.
    – Über die Funktion des Apostrophs kann man zunächst nur spekulieren. Sollte er als Trennungszeichen gemeint sein, teilt sich das Kryptogramm in zwei Teile, die 6.646 und 22.965 Zeichen lang sind. Zwei teilerfremde Zahlen, die Summe 29.411 ist eine Primzahl.

  2. #2 EDW
    15. Juli 2022

    Aus einem Reddit-Post:
    The actual text is 9 pages repeated three times, there is only one character in the nine pages that is not a number, it is 38×86 characters per page.

  3. #3 David Vierra
    16. Juli 2022

    The distribution of bigraphs (binomes?) shows that each digit frequently follows digits that are adjacent to it on the 10 digit keys above the letters on a US keyboard. That is, 4 is commonly found next to 5 or 3, and 6 is commonly found next to 5 or 7, and so on, A visual plot of the bigraph distribution shows this as two diagonal lines just above and below the major diagonal.

    There were no more repetitions than expected by chance.

    I concluded that this is a 28-page keyboard smash and chose not to spend any more time on it.

  4. #4 Thomas
    16. Juli 2022

    @David

    Good catch! Moreover, 8 double digits are among the 20 least frequently occurring bigrams (only 66 and 00 show more occurrences). The most frequent single digits are by far 6 and 7 (index fingers in the middle), whereas the “outer” digits on the keyboard 0, 1, 2, 9 are underrepresented.

  5. #5 Andre
    16. Juli 2022

    An interesting side note: if you look at the ISBN, it is a correct but invalid ISBN. You can split the ISBN into 979-8-71129261-6, which is a US ISBN (979-8) with a correct checksum (6). 979 is exceptional. Almost all books start with 978. The inner part (71129261) is the publisher and book title of the publisher. Whereby American publishers do not start with 7, but with 0 or 1.

  6. #6 Gerd
    16. Juli 2022

    So if you consider this to be crypto, it might be a key, not a message. 😉

  7. #7 EDW
    16. Juli 2022

    @Gerd
    Could be a OTP key, but the repetition would make it a bad one.

  8. #8 Klaus Schmeh
    16. Juli 2022

    As it seems, there’s a second book Robert Crimo published:
    https://files.catbox.moe/kxyd6w.pdf

  9. #9 Andreas
    16. Juli 2022

    Ich finde 3 ‘ und 3 $ im Text.
    Wenn man alle Zeilenumbrüche entfernt und den Anfang vor dem ersten ‘ ans Ende stellt, dann hat man 3 identische Zahlenfolgen. Jeweils vor dem ‘ umbrechen und visuell inspizieren. Die Häufigkeitsverteilung der Ziffern variiert zwischen 13,4% (6) und 6% (9) – das kann also eigentlich keine “echte” Verschlüsselung im Sinne von AES oder so sein.

  10. #10 Wandee Thaweetham
    Chanthaburi - Thailand
    17. Juli 2022

    @EDW

    If it is OTP, I would say it’s a cipher. If it is a key then it doesn’t have to be a bad one. It all depends on the plaintext. It could be text literally, an image or any other file format. Here it is assumed it has to be text.

  11. #11 Kerberos
    17. Juli 2022

    Hallo Hr. Schmeh,
    hat das Bild oben etwas mit dem Amoklauf zu tun?
    Das Korn und die Montage auf dem Lauf sehen
    etwas “gebastelt” aus. Kaliber und der Außendurchmesser
    des Laufs könnten eher zu einem Luftgewehr
    passen.

  12. #12 Klaus Schmeh
    17. Juli 2022

    >hat das Bild oben etwas mit dem Amoklauf zu tun?
    Nein, es handelt sich lediglich um ein Symbolbild. Ich habe nichts anderes gefunden, was ich verwenden konnte, ohne Ärger wegen dem Urheberrecht zu bekommen.

  13. #13 schorsch
    18. Juli 2022

    @Andreas: Die drei Dollarzeichen $ haben keine Bedeutung, bei ihnen handelt es sich um einen Fehler in der Transkription. Im PDF-Original ist deutlich erkennbar, dass hier die Ziffer 6 stehen müßte.

    Wenn man diesen Fehler korrigiert und die drei identischen Textteile auf einen reduziert, bleibt der folgende Text stehen:
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  14. #14 Sovle
    19. Juli 2022

    What if only part of the ciphertext was a message and the rest was just mashing on the keyboard? How could that be tested to find the portion with the message? Are there any anomalous areas that indicate something could be there?

  15. #15 Tina
    26. Juli 2022

    Ist aber nicht die Verschlüsselung aus den turner diaries?
    Habs Buch nicht zur Hand zum überprüfen

  16. #16 Klaus Schmeh
    26. Juli 2022

    @Tina:
    >Verschlüsselung aus den turner diaries
    Danke für den Hinweis. Ich musste erst einmal nachsehen, was die Turner Diaries sind. Werbung möchte ich dafür sicherlich nicht machen. Trotzdem würde mich interessieren: Kommt in den Turner Diaries Verschlüsselung vor?

  17. #17 David Oranchak
    http://zodiackillerciphers.com
    28. Juli 2022

    I found some mention of a coding system in the Turner Diaries. Here’s an excerpt:

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    On the other hand, messages of a standard nature, which can be easily and briefly coded, are usually transmitted by radio. The Organization put a great deal of thought into developing a “dictionary” of nearly 800 different, standardized messages, each of which can be specified by a three-digit number.
    Thus, at a particular time, the number “2006” might specify the message: “The operation scheduled by Unit 6 is to be postponed until further notice.” One person in each unit has memorized the entire message dictionary and is responsible for knowing what the current number coding of the dictionary is at all times. In our unit that person is George.
    Actually, it’s not as hard as it sounds. The message dictionary is arranged in a very orderly way, and once one has memorized its basic structure it’s not too difficult to memorize the whole thing. The number-coding of the messages is randomly shifted every few days, but that doesn’t mean that George has to learn the dictionary all over again; he just needs to know the new numerical designation of a single message, and he can then work out the designations for all the others in his head.
    Using this coding system allows us to maintain radio contact with good security, using extremely simple and portable equipment. Because our radio transmissions never exceed a second in duration and occur very infrequently, the political police are not likely to get a directional fix on any transmitter or to be able to decode any intercepted message.

  18. #18 David Oranchak
    http://zodiackillerciphers.com
    28. Juli 2022

    *excerpt, I meant to write. 🙂

  19. #19 Klaus Schmeh
    28. Juli 2022

    @David Oranchak:
    Thanks, David. This is a description of a codebook code with super-encryption, though it is not called that way.

    I assume that the Arcturus cryptogram was not created with Turner’s codebook. It would, however, be interesting to see a ciphertext Turner made.

  20. #20 Lucky Cat
    Canada
    1. August 2022

    He was very fond of the game Call of Duty and referenced it occasionally. In one version of the game, there are numbers stations. I believe it’s possible that he used some kind of OTP similar to number stations. Now, also consider that the book is meant to be decoded by hand since it’s physical so there’s likely a number to letter map that’s now unavailable to us due to all of the media that was removed once he was arrested.

  21. #21 BREAKER
    13. März 2024

    @Klaus

    The “Manifesto” goes by the name of Project Arcturus.

    The existence of ciphers from the Zodiac, Tinsley, and Sikikey Letters all conceal the constellation Bootes, of which Arcturus is a star.

    The US Navy’s recruitment ARG game called Project Architeuthis is engaged on an international format, concealing ciphers for a real-world operation, with the domestic side being managed under the moniker name Arcturus, reminiscient of the older operations using Bootes/Arcturus as a signature in their ciphers.

    The discovery of this book you posted was originally uploaded on Amazon under the name “Samuel Bromley”, and another that just read “Arcturus” as the author when the term was searched on Google.

    These conceal the descriptors of operations in Old English Box Cipher form, that hold as instructions for their remote agents to hit targets, selected according to their placement in the blocks of text acting as crosswords. They follow a rule that makes their blocking only valid if they are interconnected letters that form the stennos.

    A number of examples of the use of this cipher series in the list of evidence found in the operation is found at http://www.facebook.com/ProjectArchiteuthis

    The site page earned a Shorty Award Top Mention for research and content exposing the mass of ciphers and their corresponding targets in a list of over 200 posts.

    This is an ongoing operation as well as a new avenue of investigation for a number of countries, not just in the US.

    I have not cracked the number sequences but found some interesting leads as well that I hope to apply to a successful break. The repeating numbers Crimo mentioned were 23, 47, 115, 159, & 333.

    The frequencies of reoccuring numbers are listed here :
    https://www.reddit.com/r/masskillers/comments/vtxrpo/the_two_puzzles_that_were_released_on_amazon/