Editing Final Report/Thesis 2015 (section)

==Executive Summary==
This project involves the design and implementation of software in order to decipher the code associated with the Somerton Man murder mystery. This document is a Final Report and Thesis outlining the key aims, methods, results and evaluations and justifications of the specific tasks involved in the Code Cracking: Who Murdered The Somerton Man? Honours project.  The information in the report also includes the motivation, previous studies, aims, objectives, and significance of the project, as well as technical background, knowledge gaps, technical challenges, specific project tasks and project management resources.

The project fulfilled the key aims and objectives of the project including statistical analysis of likely language of origin of the Somerton Man code, the design and implementation of software to test the ''Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam'' as a ''one-time pad'' in conjunction with a new key technique, and developed a search engine to discover possible n-grams contained within the code.

The conclusions drawn from the project work include that the Somerton Man code was not created using the ''Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam'' as a ''one-time pad'' and the proposed method of using letter position within words as the key. Further analysis is required to obtain meaningful or useful combinations of grams from the results of the n-gram search engine developed.  Finally, the results of the chi-squared testing have lead to the conclusion that we can now say more confidently than ever that English was the most likely language from which the Somerton Man code was written, assuming it is an ''initialism''.

Despite being unable to decipher the Somerton Man code, the 2015 group has designed and implemented software that has furthered past work into the investigation and provided useful tools and resources to be utilised by future Honours students.