The source words from the judgement for the letters (with intervening words removed):Ĭlaimant s clai mant is that his realit y cynicism f or prece ded t emplar 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.) The italicised letters only occur up to paragraph 43 (which is page 13 of a 71-page 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 following sequence of unusually emphasised letters can be extracted from the judgement document: The letters in question are part of the actual text of the judgement, but italicised in contrast to the rest of the text. 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.
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 Da Vinci Code copyright case.
This article is about a cipher used in 2006 by Mr Justice Peter Smith and inserted into his judgment in the litigation concerning alleged plagiarism by Dan Brown.
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