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New paper: Fifteenth Century Cryptography Revisited

Nick Pelling, 2017. Cipher Mysteries.

Announces Pelling's draft paper 'Fifteenth Century Cryptography Revisited', posted on academia.edu.

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The cryptanalysis survey cites the draft's argument that homophones were a defence against the weaknesses of Italian and Latin rather than a response to frequency analysis.

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3 methods surveys
Cryptanalysis, mixed keys, encoding procedures
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Pelling, N. (2017). New paper: Fifteenth Century Cryptography Revisited. Cipher Mysteries. https://ciphermysteries.com/2017/07/08/new-paper-fifteenth-century-cryptography
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