A newly-developed cipher could finally shine light on how the strange text of the Voynich manuscript was devised.
“The Naibbe cipher is my attempt to find a way to encode something like Latin by hand as text that partially mimics the Voynich Manuscript's strange properties. The cipher works by randomly breaking a ...
A newly invented cipher may shed light on how the mysterious Voynich manuscript was made in medieval times.
The concluding words of Unsolved! are a call to action. Craig Bauer, a US mathematician and editor-in-chief of the journal Cryptologia, ends his hefty history of cryptography by noting that even as he ...
In 1872 a British general named Alexander Cunningham, excavating an area in what was then British-controlled northern India, came across something peculiar. Buried in some ruins, he uncovered a small, ...