Armand de Bourbon’s Poly-Homophonic Cipher – 1649

George Lasry, 2023. International Conference on Historical Cryptology.

Deciphers two letters written in March 1649 by the Prince de Conti, one of the leaders of the Fronde, in a cipher where a letter can have several symbols and a symbol can stand for several letters.

Voynich ManuscriptArticledoi: 10.3384/ecp195699Checked against the original0

What it's used for here

Cited in the mixed-keys survey, which notes the cipherer's habit of reusing a single homophone.

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Cite it

Lasry, G. (2023). Armand de Bourbon’s Poly-Homophonic Cipher – 1649. International Conference on Historical Cryptology. https://doi.org/10.3384/ecp195699

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Lasry, George. “Armand de Bourbon’s Poly-Homophonic Cipher – 1649.” International Conference on Historical Cryptology (2023). https://doi.org/10.3384/ecp195699.