# Knight 2011: The Copiale Cipher

> Kevin Knight, Be'ata Megyesi, Christiane Schaefer, 2011. 5 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The cryptanalysis survey treats it as a worked…

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# The Copiale Cipher

Kevin Knight, Be'ata Megyesi, Christiane Schaefer, 2011. _Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora: Comparable Corpora and the Web_.

Reports the decipherment of the Copiale cipher, an eighteenth-century German manuscript of a secret society, which turned out to be a homophonic substitution with extra symbols for spaces, nulls and whole words.

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## What it's used for here

The cryptanalysis survey treats it as a worked homophonic decipherment, and the emerging-methods survey notes that its validation rested on readable German and consistency across the document, with no formal null; three other surveys also cite it.

## Cited by on this site 5 records

[5 methods surveys]

Cryptanalysis, mathematics, linguistics, frameworks of inquiry, inductive methods

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## Cite it

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Knight, K., Megyesi, B., & Schaefer, C. (2011). The Copiale Cipher. Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora: Comparable Corpora and the Web. https://aclanthology.org/W11-1202/
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