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Index List of ciphertexts

Some famous ciphertexts (or cryptograms), in chronological order by date, are.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 39 relations: Allies of World War II, Arthur Conan Doyle, Babington Plot, Beale ciphers, Chaocipher, Cicada 3301, Ciphertext, Copiale cipher, Cryptogram, D'Agapeyeff cipher, Decipher, Inc., Dorabella Cipher, Edgar Allan Poe, Elonka Dunin, Enigma machine, Great Cipher, Henry Debosnys, James Hampton (artist), Kryptos, Lorenz cipher, National Pigeon Service, Olivier Levasseur, Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 90, Phaistos Disc, Ricky McCormick's encrypted notes, Rohonc Codex, Shugborough inscription, Smithy code, Somerton Man, The Adventure of the Dancing Men, The Da Vinci Code, The Gold-Bug, The Magic Words are Squeamish Ossifrage, Type B Cipher Machine, Undeciphered writing systems, Voynich manuscript, Zimmermann Telegram, Zodiac Killer, 11B-X-1371.

  2. Cryptography lists and comparisons
  3. Undeciphered historical codes and ciphers

Allies of World War II

The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician.

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Babington Plot

The Babington Plot was a plan in 1586 to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I, a Protestant, and put Mary, Queen of Scots, her Catholic cousin, on the English throne. List of ciphertexts and Babington Plot are history of cryptography.

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Beale ciphers

The Beale ciphers are a set of three ciphertexts, one of which allegedly states the location of a buried treasure of gold, silver and jewels estimated to be worth over 43 million US dollars Comprising three ciphertexts, the first (unsolved) text describes the location, the second (solved) ciphertext accounts the content of the treasure, and the third (unsolved) lists the names of the treasure's owners and their next of kin. List of ciphertexts and Beale ciphers are history of cryptography and undeciphered historical codes and ciphers.

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Chaocipher

The Chaocipher is a cipher method invented by John Francis Byrne in 1918 and described in his 1953 autobiographical Silent Years.

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Cicada 3301

Cicada 3301 is the name given to three sets of puzzles posted under the name "3301" online between 2012 and 2014.

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Ciphertext

In cryptography, ciphertext or cyphertext is the result of encryption performed on plaintext using an algorithm, called a cipher.

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Copiale cipher

The Copiale cipher is an encrypted manuscript consisting of 75,000 handwritten characters filling 105 pages in a bound volume. List of ciphertexts and Copiale cipher are history of cryptography.

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Cryptogram

A cryptogram is a type of puzzle that consists of a short piece of encrypted text. List of ciphertexts and cryptogram are history of cryptography.

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D'Agapeyeff cipher

The D'Agapeyeff cipher is an unsolved cipher that appears in the first edition of Codes and Ciphers, an elementary book on cryptography published by the Russian-born English cryptographer and cartographer Alexander D'Agapeyeff in 1939. List of ciphertexts and D'Agapeyeff cipher are undeciphered historical codes and ciphers.

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Decipher, Inc.

Decipher, Inc. is an American gaming company headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia, US.

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Dorabella Cipher

The Dorabella Cipher is an enciphered letter written by composer Edward Elgar to Dora Penny, which was accompanied by another dated July 14, 1897. List of ciphertexts and Dorabella Cipher are history of cryptography and undeciphered historical codes and ciphers.

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, author, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre.

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Elonka Dunin

Elonka Dunin (born December 29, 1958) is an American video game developer and cryptologist.

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Enigma machine

The Enigma machine is a cipher device developed and used in the early- to mid-20th century to protect commercial, diplomatic, and military communication.

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Great Cipher

The Great Cipher (French: Grand chiffre) was a nomenclator cipher developed by the Rossignols, several generations of whom served the French monarchs as cryptographers.

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Henry Debosnys

Henry Delactnack Debosnys (c. 1836 – April 27, 1883) was a man who was hanged for murder of his third wife, Elizabeth Wells. List of ciphertexts and Henry Debosnys are undeciphered historical codes and ciphers.

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James Hampton (artist)

James Hampton (April 8, 1909 – November 4, 1964) was an American outsider artist. List of ciphertexts and James Hampton (artist) are undeciphered historical codes and ciphers.

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Kryptos

Kryptos is a distributed sculpture by the American artist Jim Sanborn located on the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) headquarters, the George Bush Center for Intelligence in Langley, Virginia. List of ciphertexts and Kryptos are history of cryptography and undeciphered historical codes and ciphers.

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Lorenz cipher

The Lorenz SZ40, SZ42a and SZ42b were German rotor stream cipher machines used by the German Army during World War II.

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National Pigeon Service

The National Pigeon Service (NPS) was a volunteer civilian organization formed in Britain in 1938 as result of representations made to the Committee of Imperial Defence and the British Government by Major W. H. Osman.

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Olivier Levasseur

Olivier Levasseur (1688, 1689, or 1690 – 7 July 1730), was a French pirate, nicknamed La Buse ("The Buzzard") or La Bouche ("The Mouth") in his early days for the speed and ruthlessness with which he always attacked his enemies as well as his ability to verbally attack his opponents. List of ciphertexts and Olivier Levasseur are undeciphered historical codes and ciphers.

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Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 90

Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 90 (P. Oxy. 90) is a receipt for the payment of wheat, written in Greek. List of ciphertexts and Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 90 are undeciphered historical codes and ciphers.

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Phaistos Disc

The Phaistos Disc or Phaistos Disk is a disk of fired clay from the island of Crete, Greece, possibly from the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age (second millennium BC), bearing a text in an unknown script and language.

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Ricky McCormick's encrypted notes

The partially decomposed body of Ricky McCormick was discovered in a field in St. Charles County, Missouri on June 30, 1999. List of ciphertexts and Ricky McCormick's encrypted notes are undeciphered historical codes and ciphers.

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Rohonc Codex

The Rohonc Codex is an illustrated manuscript book by an unknown author, with a text in an unknown language and writing system, that surfaced in Hungary in the early 19th century.

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Shugborough inscription

The Shugborough Inscription is a sequence of letters – O U O S V A V V, between the letters D M on a lower plane – carved on the 18th-century Shepherd's Monument in the grounds of Shugborough Hall in Staffordshire, England, below a mirror image of Nicolas Poussin's painting the Shepherds of Arcadia. List of ciphertexts and Shugborough inscription are history of cryptography and undeciphered historical codes and ciphers.

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Smithy code

The Smithy code is a series of letters embedded, as a private amusement, within the April 2006 approved judgement of Mr Justice Peter Smith on The Da Vinci Code copyright case. List of ciphertexts and Smithy code are history of cryptography.

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Somerton Man

The Somerton Man was an unidentified man whose body was found on 1 December 1948 on the beach at Somerton Park, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. List of ciphertexts and Somerton Man are undeciphered historical codes and ciphers.

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The Adventure of the Dancing Men

"The Adventure of the Dancing Men" is a Sherlock Holmes story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as one of 13 stories in the cycle published as The Return of Sherlock Holmes in 1905.

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The Da Vinci Code

The Da Vinci Code is a 2003 mystery thriller novel by Dan Brown.

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The Gold-Bug

"The Gold-Bug" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe published in 1843.

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The Magic Words are Squeamish Ossifrage

"The Magic Words are Squeamish Ossifrage" was the solution to a challenge ciphertext posed by the inventors of the RSA cipher in 1977. List of ciphertexts and the Magic Words are Squeamish Ossifrage are history of cryptography.

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Type B Cipher Machine

In the history of cryptography, the "System 97 Typewriter for European Characters" (九七式欧文印字機 kyūnana-shiki ōbun injiki) or "Type B Cipher Machine", codenamed Purple by the United States, was an encryption machine used by the Japanese Foreign Office from February 1939 to the end of World War II.

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Undeciphered writing systems

Many undeciphered writing systems exist today; most date back several thousand years, although some more modern examples do exist. List of ciphertexts and undeciphered writing systems are undeciphered historical codes and ciphers.

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Voynich manuscript

The Voynich manuscript is an illustrated codex, hand-written in an unknown script referred to as Voynichese. List of ciphertexts and Voynich manuscript are history of cryptography and undeciphered historical codes and ciphers.

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Zimmermann Telegram

The Zimmermann Telegram (or Zimmermann Note or Zimmermann Cable) was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military contract between the German Empire and Mexico if the United States entered World War I against Germany. List of ciphertexts and Zimmermann Telegram are history of cryptography.

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Zodiac Killer

The Zodiac Killer is the pseudonym of an unidentified serial killer who operated in Northern California in the late 1960s. List of ciphertexts and Zodiac Killer are undeciphered historical codes and ciphers.

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11B-X-1371

11B-X-1371 is a 2015 viral video sent to GadgetZZ.com, the Swedish tech blog that publicized it.

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See also

Cryptography lists and comparisons

Undeciphered historical codes and ciphers

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ciphertexts

Also known as Famous ciphertexts, List of famous ciphertexts.