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What Was Encoded in Historical Cipher Keys in the Early Modern Era?

Beáta Megyesi, Crina Túdor, Benedek Láng et al., 2022. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Historical Cryptology (HistoCrypt 2022): 159–167.

Studies which plaintext units European cipher keys of the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries chose to encode, tracing nomenclators from short lists of names and places to large codebooks.

MYS08HTEHX052AX · mystery · click to copyMVoynich ManuscriptArticledoi: 10.3384/ecp188404Checked against the original0

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The book (chapter 29) cites it for fifteenth-century whole-word codes being mostly names, places and titles, and the mixed-keys survey uses it to set nomenclator content.

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Megyesi, B., Túdor, C., Láng, B., Lehofer, A., Kopal, N., & Waldispühl, M. (2022). What Was Encoded in Historical Cipher Keys in the Early Modern Era?. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Historical Cryptology (HistoCrypt 2022), 159–167. https://doi.org/10.3384/ecp188404
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