# Láng 2019: Dead Ends in Breaking an Unknown Cipher: Experiences in the Historiography of the Rohonc Codex

> Benedek Láng, 2019. 3 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Source for the failure modes of earlier attempts.

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# 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.

**Rohonc Codex** ArticleChecked against the original0

## What it's used for here

Source for the failure modes of earlier attempts.

## Cited by on this site 3 records

[Every proposed letter-level table (Hungarian, Romanian, Sanskrit) was inconsistent or unpublished.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/rohonc-codex/evidence/EVD0D0E33321XFJ/every-proposed-letter-level-table-hungarian-romanian)

Evidence

EVD

[The Academy's Committee of Linguistics declares the codex a forgery](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/rohonc-codex/events/EVT0D0E30MY0JBA/the-academys-committee-of-linguistics-declares-the-codex-a)

EVT

[The Rohonc Codex](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/rohonc-codex)

The mystery article

MYS

## 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
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[Read it free at ep.liu.se](https://ep.liu.se/ecp/158/006/ecp19158006.pdf)

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**SRC** 0D0E2VRP19P2

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Journal article

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The publisher's

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27 Oct 2026, for editors

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