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Readers may also find the Copiale cipher[1] interesting. It has been around since the 1700s, unsolved, until 2011 when a team figured out (with the help of a

Readers may also find the Copiale cipher[1] interesting. It has been around since the 1700s, unsolved, until 2011 when a team figured out (with the help of a computer or 2) it was a homophonic german cipher, and decoded the whole thing. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copiale_cipher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copiale_cipher [2]https://www.wired.com/2012/11/ff-the-manuscript/ https://www.wired.com/2012/11/ff-the-manuscript/

Igelau 6y ago
> an initiation ritual in which the candidate is asked to read a blank piece of paper and, on confessing inability to do so, is given eyeglasses and asked to try again, and then again after washing the eyes with a cloth, followed by an "operation" in which a single eyebrow hair is plucked. For the amount of time and effort it took to extract this secret, that's a hilarious letdown.
- 082349872349872 6y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIC_cipher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIC_cipher > "Although certainly not as complex or secure as modern computer operated stream ciphers or block ciphers, in practice messages protected by it resisted all attempts at cryptanalysis by at least the NSA from its discovery in 1953 until Häyhänen's defection in 1957." Wonder how it compares to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitaire_(cipher) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitaire_(cipher) ==== On the mountain was a treasure Buried deep beneath a stone And the valley people swore They'd have it for their very own https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sUtaMbQmpk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sUtaMbQmpk
- esrauch 6y ago
  Eh, seems about the expected result to me.
ilzmastr 6y ago
Great link. The scientist Kevin Knight that did much of the cracking has written about Voynich as well: https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W11-1511.pdf https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W11-1511.pdf

Igelau 6y ago

> an initiation ritual in which the candidate is asked to read a blank piece of paper and, on confessing inability to do so, is given eyeglasses and asked to try again, and then again after washing the eyes with a cloth, followed by an "operation" in which a single eyebrow hair is plucked. For the amount of time and effort it took to extract this secret, that's a hilarious letdown.

082349872349872 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIC_cipher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIC_cipher > "Although certainly not as complex or secure as modern computer operated stream ciphers or block ciphers, in practice messages protected by it resisted all attempts at cryptanalysis by at least the NSA from its discovery in 1953 until Häyhänen's defection in 1957." Wonder how it compares to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitaire_(cipher) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitaire_(cipher) ==== On the mountain was a treasure Buried deep beneath a stone And the valley people swore They'd have it for their very own https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sUtaMbQmpk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sUtaMbQmpk
esrauch 6y ago
Eh, seems about the expected result to me.

ilzmastr 6y ago

Great link. The scientist Kevin Knight that did much of the cracking has written about Voynich as well: https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W11-1511.pdf https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W11-1511.pdf