Smithy Code

[Devon]

In the uk, there was a cout case involoving the Da vinci code.
The judge who wrote the report put a code into it.
http://www.channel4.com/news/special-reports/special-reports-storypage.jsp?id=2258

The code in full is:
SmithycodeJaeiextostgpsacgreaamqwfkadpmqzv
Noone has worked it out yet.

[tom]

I am perplexed and confused.

[Devon]

I am perplexed and confused.
Yea, so is everyone else, but they found some one to work it out.

Despite all your excellent entries - none of you got it right - but we know a man who did.

Richard Taylor was one of a number of lawyers at the law firm Olswang who spent some of their valuable time on the puzzle yesterday - and found that the key to the puzzle was a mathematical progression known as the Fibonacci sequence.

The code in full is:
SmithycodeJaeiextostgpsacgreaamqwfkadpmqzv


And the solution?

Smithy Code Jackie Fisher who are you Dreadnought

The key lies in the fact that the judge is a keen military historian.

Far from being an arcane guide in the quest for the Holy Grail, it turned out to be a tribute to the judge's great hero - Admiral John "Jackie" Fisher.

He admitted he had inserted the code for his own amusement and it had nothing to do with the case. He said: "I hate crosswords and do not do Sudoku as I do not have the patience".
Not as intresting as i had hoped, but we can all sleep soundly now.