0
Dead Ends in Breaking an Unknown Cipher: Experiences in the Historiography of the Rohonc Codex
Benedek Láng, 2019. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Historical Cryptology (HistoCrypt 2019), Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 158.
Reviews the failed readings (Hungarian, Daco-Romanian, Sanskrit) and why they failed, and what the later statistical work did better.
What it's used for here
Source for the failure modes of earlier attempts.
Our copy
Research copy, for editors and curators. The work is the publisher's, so readers are sent to it. We keep this copy so the citation can be checked if the page changes or goes.
ep.liu.se · fetched 27 Oct 2026Open the file
Loading…
Cited by on this site 3 records
Cite it
Láng, B. (2019). Dead Ends in Breaking an Unknown Cipher: Experiences in the Historiography of the Rohonc Codex. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Historical Cryptology (HistoCrypt 2019), Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 158. https://ep.liu.se/ecp/158/006/ecp19158006.pdf
@article{lang2019dead,
author = {Láng, Benedek},
title = {Dead Ends in Breaking an Unknown Cipher: Experiences in the Historiography of the Rohonc Codex},
journal = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Historical Cryptology (HistoCrypt 2019), Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 158},
year = {2019},
url = {https://ep.liu.se/ecp/158/006/ecp19158006.pdf}
}TY - JOUR TI - Dead Ends in Breaking an Unknown Cipher: Experiences in the Historiography of the Rohonc Codex AU - Láng, Benedek PY - 2019 JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Historical Cryptology (HistoCrypt 2019), Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 158 UR - https://ep.liu.se/ecp/158/006/ecp19158006.pdf ER -
Láng, Benedek. “Dead Ends in Breaking an Unknown Cipher: Experiences in the Historiography of the Rohonc Codex.” Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Historical Cryptology (HistoCrypt 2019), Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 158 (2019).