There's another article about it here:<p><a href="https://www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/science/earth-science/silk-dress-cryptogram-canadian-researcher-cracks-135-year-old-unsolvable-code" rel="nofollow">https://www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/science/earth-scie...</a><p>An academic paper with the solution here:<p><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01611194.2023.2223562" rel="nofollow">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01611194.2023.2...</a><p>The initial blog post about the piece of paper in the dress:<p><a href="https://commitmentocostumes.blogspot.com/2014/02/bennetts-bronze-bustle.html" rel="nofollow">https://commitmentocostumes.blogspot.com/2014/02/bennetts-br...</a><p>For me this raises as many questions as it answers in some ways. I have no idea why it would be hidden away like that.
Academic paper with far more detail, including the decoding of all messages here: <a href="https://canwin-datahub.ad.umanitoba.ca/data/publication/breaking-silk-dress-cryptogram/resource/ed7d67d0-5563-4747-8a32-380fc413fda3" rel="nofollow">https://canwin-datahub.ad.umanitoba.ca/data/publication/brea...</a>
Related article from which the CBC YouTube video is associated:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38721406">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38721406</a>
Cool, but once again it turns out that real life is not like a Dan Brown novel. No Illuminati, no antipopes, no buried treasure, just everyday activities that apparently needed some level of protection.