Editing Semester A Progress Report 2012 (section)

====Previous Year's Work====
This is now the fourth year of the project, and the previous three groups have provided some valuable insight into the case, and this is the basis on what we have built on.

In 2009, the group established the letters were not random, the code wasn't a transposition cipher, and the code was consistent with representing the first letter of words.

In 2010, the group continued along the first letter path, and compared the code against particular texts. However they were unsuccessful in their results, with the largest matches coming from The Rubaiyat.  They also developed a simple web application and pattern matcher, which was designed to download and search the contents of webpages looking for patterns; this was then compared with the Somerton code.

In 2011, the group expanded the web application and created the web crawler that would search the Internet by itself. They also focused on various ciphers and cryptographic techniques that may have been used to generate the code.

All three groups also worked on a Cipher Cross-off List; this list contains ciphers and encryptions and these have been systematically tested and crossed off using frequency distribution and through decoding methods.  There are currently more then 30 ciphers, which have been disproved, showing the method used for each of these.