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	<title>Cipher Mysteries &#187; David Kahn</title>
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		<title>The Chaocipher revealed!</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/07/03/the-chaocipher-revealed</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 01:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[David Kahn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chaocipher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moshe Rubin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Chaocipher&#8221; is a devious cipher system invented in 1918 by John F. Byrne: allegedly, it was so complex that nobody could crack his challenge ciphertexts (even with the plaintext to refer to!), yet was so simple that its mechanism was claimed to comprise only two rotating disks small enough to fit in a cigar box, and could be operated [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;The Chaocipher&#8221; is a devious cipher system invented in 1918 by John F. Byrne: allegedly, it was so complex that nobody could crack his challenge ciphertexts (even with the plaintext to refer to!), yet was so simple that its mechanism was claimed to comprise only two rotating disks small enough to fit in a cigar box, and could be operated [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Review of &#8220;Cracking Codes &amp; Cryptograms for Dummies&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/04/23/review-of-cracking-codes-cryptograms-for-dummies</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 08:24:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[David Kahn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dorabella Cipher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elonka Dunin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phaistos Disc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ciphermysteries.com/?p=2968</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With my book publisher hat on, I&#8217;d guess that the pitch for this book probably said: &#8220;Codes! Ciphers! Cryptograms! Masonic stuff! For Dummies!&#8221; And yes, the authors (Denise Sutherland and Mark E. Koltko-Rivera) pretty much seem to have delivered on that basic promise. But&#8230; is it any good? Bear with me while I sketch out a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[With my book publisher hat on, I&#8217;d guess that the pitch for this book probably said: &#8220;Codes! Ciphers! Cryptograms! Masonic stuff! For Dummies!&#8221; And yes, the authors (Denise Sutherland and Mark E. Koltko-Rivera) pretty much seem to have delivered on that basic promise. But&#8230; is it any good?
Bear with me while I sketch out a triangle [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Center for Cryptologic History&#8217;s 2010 calendar&#8230;!</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/01/06/the-center-for-cryptologic-historys-2010-calendar</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/01/06/the-center-for-cryptologic-historys-2010-calendar#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[David Kahn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elonka Dunin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary D'Imperio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not widely known that the US National Security Agency has a small section at Fort Meade devoted to the history of code-breaking: The Center for Cryptologic History. As well as making scans of a number of useful documents available on its website (most notably Mary D&#8217;Imperio&#8217;s &#8220;An Elegant Enigma&#8221;), the CCH convenes its own history of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not widely known that the US National Security Agency has a small section at Fort Meade devoted to the history of code-breaking: The Center for Cryptologic History. As well as making scans of a number of useful documents available on its website (most notably Mary D&#8217;Imperio&#8217;s &#8220;An Elegant Enigma&#8221;), the CCH convenes its own history of [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Bacon = Shakespeare, 2009 remix&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/12/29/bacon-shakespeare-2009-remix</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/12/29/bacon-shakespeare-2009-remix#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[David Kahn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historical Ciphers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A modern day Baron Frankenstein (actually, a mild-mannered Norwegian) has wired up the electrodes to a monstrous-looking zombie most thought long dead. It rises! It stands! It lives! It liiiiives!!!!! I&#8217;m referring, of course, to the whole idea of using wobbly cryptography to prove that Francis Bacon = William Shakespeare, that David Kahn somewhat derisively called &#8220;enigmatology&#8221;. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A modern day Baron Frankenstein (actually, a mild-mannered Norwegian) has wired up the electrodes to a monstrous-looking zombie most thought long dead. It rises! It stands! It lives! It liiiiives!!!!!
I&#8217;m referring, of course, to the whole idea of using wobbly cryptography to prove that Francis Bacon = William Shakespeare, that David Kahn somewhat derisively called &#8220;enigmatology&#8221;. Note [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Voynich Ms Reading List Recommendations&#8230;?</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/01/25/voynich-ms-reading-list-recommendations</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/01/25/voynich-ms-reading-list-recommendations#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Augusto Buonafalce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Kahn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historical Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lynn Thorndike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary D'Imperio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Curse of the Voynich]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brunelleschi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caterina Sforza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Prager]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Isabella Cortese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mariano Taccola]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paolo Preto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patrizia Catellani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Eamon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a comment to a recent post on Alberti &#38; Averlino, &#8216;infinitii&#8217; asks what my recommendations would be for a Voynich Manuscript reading list&#8230; a deceptively hard question. Apart from the direct literature on the subject (Mary D&#8217;Imperio&#8217;s &#8220;An Elegant Enigma&#8221;, my &#8220;The Curse of the Voynich&#8221;, and perhaps even Kennedy &#38; Churchill&#8217;s &#8220;The Voynich [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In a comment to a recent post on Alberti &amp; Averlino, &#8216;infinitii&#8217; asks what my recommendations would be for a Voynich Manuscript reading list&#8230; a deceptively hard question.
Apart from the direct literature on the subject (Mary D&#8217;Imperio&#8217;s &#8220;An Elegant Enigma&#8221;, my &#8220;The Curse of the Voynich&#8221;, and perhaps even Kennedy &amp; Churchill&#8217;s &#8220;The Voynich Manuscript&#8221;), [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Warwick/Warburg course 2008, Day Three&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/06/08/warwickwarburg-course-2008-day-three</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/06/08/warwickwarburg-course-2008-day-three#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carlo Ginzburg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Burnett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Hope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Kahn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warburg Institute]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Day One of the Early Modern Research Techniques course was easy to write about, as was Day Two: but Day Three? Tricky&#8230; If I close my eyes, the single image from it burnt into my retinas is of Charles Hope sardonically half-warning participants about the historical Class A drug that is archival research. Yes, he [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Day One of the Early Modern Research Techniques course was easy to write about, as was Day Two: but Day Three? Tricky&#8230;
If I close my eyes, the single image from it burnt into my retinas is of Charles Hope sardonically half-warning participants about the historical Class A drug that is archival research. Yes, he personally [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>&quot;Codes and Ciphers through The Middle Ages&quot;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/06/01/codes-and-ciphers-through-the-middle-ages</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/06/01/codes-and-ciphers-through-the-middle-ages#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[David Kahn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I happened upon the following post a few days ago here, and thought I ought to reproduce it here for anyone that&#8217;s interested (the cryptography history lane tends to be filled with caravans, and as a result is somewhat slow-moving). When the volume finally appears (in 2009?), I&#8217;ll be just as interested in the paper [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I happened upon the following post a few days ago here, and thought I ought to reproduce it here for anyone that&#8217;s interested (the cryptography history lane tends to be filled with caravans, and as a result is somewhat slow-moving). When the volume finally appears (in 2009?), I&#8217;ll be just as interested in the paper [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Thorndike has the answer&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/04/20/thorndike-has-the-answer</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/04/20/thorndike-has-the-answer#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Antonio Averlino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Kahn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leon Battista Alberti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lynn Thorndike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Curse of the Voynich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://79.170.40.180/voynichnews.com/?p=99</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For me, Voynich research is one of those things that grind slowly onwards for long periods of time, punctuated by occasional testosteronal fist-clenching-in-the-air moments of elation, a bit like a prisoner being unexpectedly set free. OK, I know it&#8217;s a bit cliched: but I do it anyway. For &#8220;The Curse of the Voynich&#8220;, I forensically [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[For me, Voynich research is one of those things that grind slowly onwards for long periods of time, punctuated by occasional testosteronal fist-clenching-in-the-air moments of elation, a bit like a prisoner being unexpectedly set free. OK, I know it&#8217;s a bit cliched: but I do it anyway.
For &#8220;The Curse of the Voynich&#8220;, I forensically examined [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Warwick/Warburg course 2008, Day Two&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/02/22/warwickwarburg-course-2008-day-two</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/02/22/warwickwarburg-course-2008-day-two#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Charles Hope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Kahn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historical Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Da Vinci Code]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warburg Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erwin Panofsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Taylor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rembrandt Duits]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a rollercoaster of a day for me at the Warburg Institute on the Early Modern Research Techniques course, like being given the keys to the world twice but having them taken away three times. I&#8217;ll try to explain&#8230; Paul Taylor kicked Day Two&#8217;s morning off in fine style, picking up the baton from [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a rollercoaster of a day for me at the Warburg Institute on the Early Modern Research Techniques course, like being given the keys to the world twice but having them taken away three times. I&#8217;ll try to explain&#8230;
Paul Taylor kicked Day Two&#8217;s morning off in fine style, picking up the baton from Francois [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Introduction to the Voynich Manuscript&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/02/10/introduction-to-the-voynich-manuscript</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/02/10/introduction-to-the-voynich-manuscript#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 05:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Joseph Feely]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leonell Strong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rene Zandbergen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Brumbaugh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lev Grossman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Every few days, I get asked to recommend a good introduction to the Voynich Manuscript (the &#8216;VMs&#8217; for short). But each time this happens, my heart sinks a little: given the size and scope of historical research you&#8217;d need to have to properly grasp the subject, it&#8217;s a bit like being asked to recommend a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Every few days, I get asked to recommend a good introduction to the Voynich Manuscript (the &#8216;VMs&#8217; for short). But each time this happens, my heart sinks a little: given the size and scope of historical research you&#8217;d need to have to properly grasp the subject, it&#8217;s a bit like being asked to recommend a [...]]]></content:encoded>
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