# Megyesi 2022: What Was Encoded in Historical Cipher Keys in the Early Modern Era?

> Beáta Megyesi, Crina Túdor, Benedek Láng et al., 2022. 2 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The book (chapter 29) cites it for fifteenth-century…

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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.

**Voynich Manuscript** Articledoi: **[10.3384/ecp188404](https://doi.org/10.3384/ecp188404)** Checked against the original0

## What it's used for here

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.

## Cited by on this site 2 records

[Reading Without a Key](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D8NJAWT22V4/reading-without-a-key)

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Mixed keys

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## Cite it

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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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