List of ciphertexts explained

Some famous ciphertexts (or cryptograms), in chronological order by date, are:

data-sort-type="number"Year of originCiphertextDecipherment status
2nd millennium BCPhaistos Disc
179-180Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 90
1400s (15th century)Voynich Manuscript
1500s (16th century) (?)Rohonc Codex
1586Babington Plot ciphers
17th centuryGreat Cipher
1730Olivier Levasseur's treasure cryptogram
1748–1756Shugborough inscription
1760–1780Copiale cipher
1843"The Gold-Bug" cryptogram by Edgar Allan Poe
1882Debosnys cipher
1885Beale ciphers
1897Dorabella Cipher
1903"The Adventure of the Dancing Men" code by Arthur Conan Doyle
1917
1918Chaocipher
1918–1945Enigma machine messages
1939D'Agapeyeff cipher
1939–1945Purple cipher machine messages
1941Lorenz SZ42 machine cipher messages
1944Pigeon NURP 40 TW 194
1948Tamam Shud case
1950(?)James Hampton
1969Zodiac Killer ciphers
1977The Magic Words are Squeamish Ossifrage
1983
1986Decipher II
1987Decipher III
1990Kryptos
1991Scorpion ciphers[1]
1999Ricky McCormick's encrypted notes
2006Smithy code, embedded within the 2006 judgment on The Da Vinci Code case
2012–2016Cicada 3301 puzzles
201511B-X-1371

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Scorpion Ciphers . 2024-07-04 . Cipher Mysteries . en-GB.

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