# Judge In Da Vinci Code Conspiracy

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 28, 2006, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-in-da-vinci-code-conspiracy/354539 "2006-04-28T00:45:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2006, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-in-da-vinci-code-conspiracy/354539/1 "2006-04-28T00:45:56Z")

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Mr Justice Peter Smith, the judge in the recent _Da Vinci Code_ trial appears to be a bit of a cryptographer.

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> Smith italicised apparently random letters in the first part of the document to spell out “Smithy code”. While hardly an Enigma-esque feat of encryption, media lawyers who have been poring over the judgment for the last three weeks have only just noticed the gag.

There are more letters that are jumbled up and no one has yet worked out what they mean.

The story is [here](http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/27/da_vinci_judgement/), with a link to the judgement [here](http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/images/judgment-files/baigent_v_rhg_0406.pdf) (warning - pdf file).

Being no good at anagrams I wonder if the towering intellects of the SDMB could work it out.

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**Author:** ![Atticus\_Finch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Atticus\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atticus_Finch)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2006, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-in-da-vinci-code-conspiracy/354539/2 "2006-04-28T02:48:14Z")

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Spoiler warning - [here’s the answer](http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/28/books/28code.ready.html).

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**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2006, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-in-da-vinci-code-conspiracy/354539/3 "2006-04-28T03:52:35Z")

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I was working all afternoon on that…!

Ah, well, I got to find out what a Vigenère cipher was. Life is still good. 🙂