Smithy code

"[2] It was first broken, in the same month, by Dan Tench, a lawyer who writes on media issues for The Guardian, after he received a series of email clues about it from Justice Smith.

Meanwhile, paragraph 52 concludes with this sentence: "The key to solving the conundrum posed by this judgment is in reading HBHG and DVC."

The source words from the judgement for the letters (with intervening words removed): Claimants claimant is that his reality cynicism for preceded templarJersey able research this techniques extinguished technical story was the something groups used was documents being eradicated elsewhere Templars Claimants sequence with of key Plantard introduced manuscripts ultimately questions emblazoned prevalentExcluding leading letters "s m i t h y c o d e", the letter frequencies are as follows: Paragraph numbers for cipher letters:[1] From article "'Da Vinci' judgement code puzzles lawyers": The New York Times reported that Smith sent an e-mail to a reporter at the newspaper that offered a hint.

It said the code referred to his entry in this year's edition of Britain's "Who's Who," which has references to his wife Diane, his three children Frazier, Parker, and Bailey, British naval officer Jackie Fisher, and the Titanic Historical Society – among other things.

(Alternatively, as is done in a professional context, the letters of the alphabet may be numbered from 0, in which case the final step back does not have to be made.)