# Wase 2023: Dorabella unMASCed - the Dorabella Cipher is not an English or Latin Mono-Alphabetical Substitution Cipher

> Viktor Wase, 2023. 4 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Strongest published argument against a plain substitution.

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# Dorabella unMASCed - the Dorabella Cipher is not an English or Latin Mono-Alphabetical Substitution Cipher

Viktor Wase, 2023. _Cryptologia (online 20 November 2023; 49: 15-24)_.

Shows that solvers break English and Latin monoalphabetic ciphers as short as Dorabella, and fail on Dorabella.

**Dorabella cipher** Articledoi: **[10.1080/01611194.2023.2271466](https://doi.org/10.1080/01611194.2023.2271466)** Checked against the original0

## What it's used for here

Strongest published argument against a plain substitution.

## Cited by on this site 4 records

[Algorithms that solve English and Latin substitutions of Dorabella's length fail on it.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/dorabella-cipher/evidence/EVD0CRZASTT0G94/algorithms-that-solve-english-and-latin-substitutions-of)

Evidence

EVD

[Wase shows solvers fail on Dorabella but succeed on English and Latin controls](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/dorabella-cipher/events/EVT0CRZAR44669V/wase-shows-solvers-fail-on-dorabella-but-succeed-on-english)

EVT

[The Dorabella cipher](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/dorabella-cipher)

The mystery article

MYS

[What kind of message is the Dorabella note?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/dorabella-cipher/questions/QST0CRZARBY7QFA/what-kind-of-message-is-the-dorabella-note)

Question

QST

## Cite it

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Wase, V. (2023). Dorabella unMASCed - the Dorabella Cipher is not an English or Latin Mono-Alphabetical Substitution Cipher. Cryptologia (online 20 November 2023; 49: 15-24). https://doi.org/10.1080/01611194.2023.2271466
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[Find it at doi.org](https://doi.org/10.1080/01611194.2023.2271466)

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**SRC** 0CRZAHH64CP5

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