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	<title>Cipher Mysteries &#187; Bellaso Ciphers</title>
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		<title>Once again, two more Renaissance ciphers yield to Mr Gaffney&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/05/03/once-again-two-more-renaissance-ciphers-yield-to-mr-gaffney</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 08:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re all thoroughly sick of the way I heap superlatives and laurel wreaths onto Tony Gaffney&#8217;s hair-bestrewn head every time he cracks yet another of Bellaso&#8217;s ciphers&#8230; and now he&#8217;s broken two more, lifting his tally for the 1564 set of challenge ciphers to 6 out of 7. Though Tony dearly wants [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[By now I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re all thoroughly sick of the way I heap superlatives and laurel wreaths onto Tony Gaffney&#8217;s hair-bestrewn head every time he cracks yet another of Bellaso&#8217;s ciphers&#8230; and now he&#8217;s broken two more, lifting his tally for the 1564 set of challenge ciphers to 6 out of 7. Though Tony dearly wants [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>4th Bellaso cipher toppled, Tony Gaffney strikes again!</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/04/27/4th-bellaso-cipher-toppled-tony-gaffney-strikes-again</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That man Tony Gaffney has been at it again, shooting yet another cryptographic tin can down off Giovan Battista Bellaso&#8217;s fence: this time, it was Bellaso&#8217;s 1564 challenge cipher #7&#8242;s turn to fall. What was particularly sweet about #7 was that it was a completely different type of cipher to the others Tony had previously broken: [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[That man Tony Gaffney has been at it again, shooting yet another cryptographic tin can down off Giovan Battista Bellaso&#8217;s fence: this time, it was Bellaso&#8217;s 1564 challenge cipher #7&#8242;s turn to fall.
What was particularly sweet about #7 was that it was a completely different type of cipher to the others Tony had previously broken: rather [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Two more Renaissance challenge ciphers cracked!</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/04/19/two-more-renaissance-challenge-ciphers-cracked</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 08:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bellaso Ciphers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historical Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Gaffney]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time (twenty years ago, back when I still had hair), I used to play for Hackney Chess Club in the London League: after most matches, the team would decamp to Brick Lane for a late night curry and a swift-ish couple of pints. Happy (if somewhat calorifically excessive) days. And so it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Once upon a time (twenty years ago, back when I still had hair), I used to play for Hackney Chess Club in the London League: after most matches, the team would decamp to Brick Lane for a late night curry and a swift-ish couple of pints. Happy (if somewhat calorifically excessive) days.  
And so it [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>450-year-old challenge cipher cracked!</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/03/31/450-year-old-challenge-cipher-cracked</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/03/31/450-year-old-challenge-cipher-cracked#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Augusto Buonafalce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bellaso Ciphers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dorabella Cipher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Gaffney]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the 1564 printed edition of his cryptography manual, Giovan Battista Bellaso included seven challenge ciphers for his readers to break, along with a set of clues: these all remained unbroken and in obscurity until Augusto Buonafalce wrote about them in 1997, 1999, and 2006 in the journal Cryptologia. But that&#8217;s all changed now! Tony Gaffney - who Cipher [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In the 1564 printed edition of his cryptography manual, Giovan Battista Bellaso included seven challenge ciphers for his readers to break, along with a set of clues: these all remained unbroken and in obscurity until Augusto Buonafalce wrote about them in 1997, 1999, and 2006 in the journal Cryptologia.
But that&#8217;s all changed now!
Tony Gaffney - who Cipher Mysteries regulars should [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Bellaso&#8217;s ciphers, updated&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/01/18/bellasos-ciphers-updated</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Augusto Buonafalce]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A huge thanks to the indefatigable Tony Gaffney who very kindly took the time recently to double-check my transcriptions (some of them derived from Augusto Buonafalce&#8217;s transcriptions) of Bellaso&#8217;s various challenge ciphers against the copies held in the British Library. Of the twelve corrections he suggested, roughly half were typos on my part, while the remainder were places [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A huge thanks to the indefatigable Tony Gaffney who very kindly took the time recently to double-check my transcriptions (some of them derived from Augusto Buonafalce&#8217;s transcriptions) of Bellaso&#8217;s various challenge ciphers against the copies held in the British Library.
Of the twelve corrections he suggested, roughly half were typos on my part, while the remainder were places where [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Bellaso&#8217;s challenge ciphers (updated)&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/10/18/bellasos-challenge-ciphers-updated</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/10/18/bellasos-challenge-ciphers-updated#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Augusto Buonafalce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bellaso Ciphers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feynman Ciphers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After I recently mentioned Bellaso&#8217;s set of seven challenge ciphers from 1564 on this blog, Augusto Buonafalce very kindly emailed me with scans of Bellaso&#8217;s three challenge ciphers from 1555. I&#8217;ve now transcribed these (as best I can) and have added them to the existing Bellaso cipher transcriptions page. I do acknowledge that the font that my [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[After I recently mentioned Bellaso&#8217;s set of seven challenge ciphers from 1564 on this blog, Augusto Buonafalce very kindly emailed me with scans of Bellaso&#8217;s three challenge ciphers from 1555. I&#8217;ve now transcribed these (as best I can) and have added them to the existing Bellaso cipher transcriptions page.
I do acknowledge that the font that my theme [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The mystery of Bellaso&#8217;s ciphers&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/10/10/the-mystery-of-bellasos-ciphers</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/10/10/the-mystery-of-bellasos-ciphers#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Augusto Buonafalce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bellaso Ciphers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cryptologia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A little while back, I asked Augusto Buonafalce about Renaissance cryptographer Giovan Battista Bellaso&#8217;s challenge ciphers, completely unaware that he seems to have published more articles on them than anyone else on the planet. (Shame on me for not subscribing to Cryptologia, I really ought to.) In fact, Bellaso published two sets of challenge ciphers [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A little while back, I asked Augusto Buonafalce about Renaissance cryptographer Giovan Battista Bellaso&#8217;s challenge ciphers, completely unaware that he seems to have published more articles on them than anyone else on the planet. (Shame on me for not subscribing to Cryptologia, I really ought to.)
In fact, Bellaso published two sets of challenge ciphers in [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Review of &#8220;The Six Unsolved Ciphers&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/09/20/review-of-the-six-unsolved-ciphers</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/09/20/review-of-the-six-unsolved-ciphers#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 08:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beale Ciphers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bellaso Ciphers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cipher Non-Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ciphers in Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Codex Seraphinianus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dorabella Cipher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elonka Dunin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glen Claston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rohonc Codex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zodiac Killer Ciphers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Belfield]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;or, in all its prolixitous glory, &#8221;The Six Unsolved Ciphers: Inside the Mysterious Codes That Have Confounded the World&#8217;s Greatest Cryptographers&#8220;, by Richard Belfield (2007). It was previously published by Orion in the UK as &#8220;Can You Crack the Enigma Code?&#8221; in 2006. You&#8217;d have thought I&#8217;d be delighted by this offering: after all, it covers [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8230;or, in all its prolixitous glory, &#8221;The Six Unsolved Ciphers: Inside the Mysterious Codes That Have Confounded the World&#8217;s Greatest Cryptographers&#8220;, by Richard Belfield (2007). It was previously published by Orion in the UK as &#8220;Can You Crack the Enigma Code?&#8221; in 2006.
You&#8217;d have thought I&#8217;d be delighted by this offering: after all, it covers the [...]]]></content:encoded>
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