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Deciphering Mary Stuart's Lost Letters from 1578–1584

George Lasry, Norbert Biermann, Satoshi Tomokiyo, 2023. Cryptologia 47(2): 101–202.

Reports the breaking of more than 55 fully enciphered letters in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, which proved to be lost correspondence of Mary, Queen of Scots, from 1578 to 1584.

MYS08HTEHX052AX · mystery · click to copyMVoynich ManuscriptArticledoi: 10.1080/01611194.2022.2160677Checked against the original0

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The mixed-keys survey opens its section on homophonic ciphers with nomenclators with it, and the linguistics and datasets survey tabulates it as a solved case broken by annealing on a French language model.

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Lasry, G., Biermann, N., & Tomokiyo, S. (2023). Deciphering Mary Stuart's Lost Letters from 1578–1584. Cryptologia, 47(2), 101–202. https://doi.org/10.1080/01611194.2022.2160677
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