Fifteenth Century Cryptography

Nick Pelling, 2016.

A long blog essay on Italian chancery ciphers of the fifteenth century, describing surviving keys from Lavinde's ledger of 1379 through Mantua, Milan and the Tranchedino collection.

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What it's used for here

The book and three surveys draw on it for what chancery keys of the period contained: homophones, nulls, syllable signs and nomenclators.

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Reading Without a Key

The book, version 2.0

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3 methods surveys

Cryptanalysis, mixed keys, encoding procedures

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Cite it

Pelling, N. (2016). Fifteenth Century Cryptography. https://ciphermysteries.com

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Pelling, Nick. “Fifteenth Century Cryptography.” 2016.