# Lasry 2022: Deciphering a Short Papal Cipher from 1721

> George Lasry, Paolo Bonavoglia, 2022. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Cited in the methods survey on cryptanalysis.

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# Deciphering a Short Papal Cipher from 1721

George Lasry, Paolo Bonavoglia, 2022. _International Conference on Historical Cryptology_.

Recovers most of the key and text of a 1721 letter from the papal nuncio in Brussels, written in comma-separated digit codes, which had been posed as a public challenge in 2019.

**Voynich Manuscript** Articledoi: **[10.3384/ecp188401](https://doi.org/10.3384/ecp188401)** Checked against the original0

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Lasry, G., & Bonavoglia, P. (2022). Deciphering a Short Papal Cipher from 1721. International Conference on Historical Cryptology. https://doi.org/10.3384/ecp188401
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