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Solved: The Ciphers in Book III of Trithemius's Steganographia

Jim Reeds, 1998. Cryptologia.

Reports the solution of the hidden cipher messages in Book III of Trithemius's Steganographia and argues that the book is a treatise on cryptography rather than on demonic magic.

MYS08HTEHX052AX · mystery · click to copyMVoynich ManuscriptArticledoi: 10.1080/0161-119891886948Checked against the original0

What it's used for here

The procedure-fingerprinting survey describes Book III's numeric tables from it, and the linguistics survey lists it among solved historical ciphers.

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2 methods surveys
Linguistics, encoding procedures
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Reeds, J. (1998). Solved: The Ciphers in Book III of Trithemius's Steganographia. Cryptologia. https://doi.org/10.1080/0161-119891886948
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