‘Edgar Allan Poe Ciphers’ category posts - « Cipher Mysteries »



"The E. A. Poe Cryptographic Challenge"…

Posted by nickpelling on May 13th, 2008 - 1 comment.
While looking at Elonka's list of unsolved cipher mysteries while composing my post on the d'Agapeyeff cipher, my eye was drawn to the list of solved cipher mysteries she appended to it, and in particular to "The E. A. Poe Cryptographic Challenge". Edgar Allan Poe often used codes and ciphers in his stories, most famously in "The ...

Beale Papers: solved (or not)?

Posted by nickpelling on Apr 1st, 2008 - 3 comments.
Here's a claimed solution to the Beale Papers (but press Cancel on the login popup, and if browsing there under Windows, I wouldn't advise installing the ActiveX control that pops up) which I didn't know about until very recently. I thought I'd mention it here because, as any fule kno, the Beale Papers are one of the few ...