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:''This article refers to a cipher used in 2006 by Mr Justice Peter Smith and inserted into his judgment in the litigation concerning alleged plagiarism by Dan Brown. For the prisoner code invented by Capt. Smitty Harris in 1965, see Tap Code.'' The Smithy code is a series of letters embedded, as a private amusement,〔 〕 within the April 2006 approved judgement of Mr Justice Peter Smith on the ''The Da Vinci Code'' copyright case. It was first broken 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.〔 〕 == How the code works == The letters in question are part of the actual text of the judgement, but italicised in contrast to the rest of the text. The following sequence of unusually italicised letters can be extracted from the judgement document: :s m i t h y c o d e J a e i e x t o s t g p s a c g r e a m q w f k a d p m q z v The italicised letters only occur up to paragraph 43 (which is page 13 of a 71-page document). Meanwhile, paragraph 52 concludes with this sentence: "The key to solving the conundrum posed by this judgment is in reading HBHG and DVC." (These abbreviations are used by Smith throughout the judgement in referring to the books at issue, ''The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail'' and ''The Da Vinci Code''.) There are 70 sections in the judgement. The source words from the judgement for the letters (with intervening words removed): ''Claimants claimant is that his reality cynicism for preceded templar'' ''Jersey 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 prevalent'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Smithy code」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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