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    Bacon's cipher or the Baconian cipher is a method of steganographic message encoding devised by Francis Bacon in 1605. In steganography, a message is...
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    Voynich manuscript (category Undeciphered historical codes and ciphers)
    published Roger Bacon's Cipher: The Right Key Found, in which he claimed that the book was a scientific diary written by Roger Bacon. Feely's method posited...
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    philosophical ideas found in Bacon’s writings and the works of Shakespeare. Legal and autobiographical allusions and cryptographic ciphers and codes were later...
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    without actually being a music cipher. William F. Friedman embedded a secret message based on Francis Bacon's cipher into a sheet music arrangement of...
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  • Bacon baronets, three titles in the Baronetage of England, one extinct 2940 Bacon, an asteroid Bacon's, a chain of department stores Bacon's cipher,...
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    Bacon's Cipher Story (1893–95). Owen's "cipher wheel" was a device for quickly collating printed pages from the works of Shakespeare, Francis Bacon,...
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    Bacon's Cipher Story (1893), he claimed to have discovered Bacon's autobiography embedded in Shakespeare's plays, including the revelation that Bacon...
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    Voynich was investigated by the FBI, in relation to his possession of Bacon's cipher. The report also noted that he dealt with manuscripts from the 13th...
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  • In cryptography, a classical cipher is a type of cipher that was used historically but for the most part, has fallen into disuse. In contrast to modern...
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    In cryptography, a Caesar cipher, also known as Caesar's cipher, the shift cipher, Caesar's code, or Caesar shift, is one of the simplest and most widely...
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  • by the report of Muskets, and any instruments of like nature". (See Bacon's cipher.) In 1617, John Napier described a system he called location arithmetic...
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    The Vigenère cipher (French pronunciation: [viʒnɛːʁ]) is a method of encrypting alphabetic text where each letter of the plaintext is encoded with a different...
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    pigpen cipher (alternatively referred to as the masonic cipher, Freemason's cipher, Rosicrucian cipher, Napoleon cipher, and tic-tac-toe cipher) is a geometric...
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  • technique used can recover the message and then decrypt it. Francis Bacon developed Bacon's cipher as such a technique. The ciphertext produced by most digital...
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    upon manual and hand-written encoding and cyphering systems, such as Bacon's cipher, Braille, international maritime signal flags, and the 4-digit encoding...
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  • In cryptography, a substitution cipher is a method of encrypting in which units of plaintext are replaced with the ciphertext, in a defined manner, with...
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    Wells Gallup, who believed that Francis Bacon was the true author of the plays. In his book Sir Francis Bacon's Cipher Story (1893–5), Owen claimed to have...
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  • null cipher, also known as concealment cipher, is an ancient form of encryption where the plaintext is mixed with a large amount of non-cipher material...
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    In cryptography, a transposition cipher (also known as a permutation cipher) is a method of encryption which scrambles the positions of characters (transposition)...
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  • substitution ciphers, including the Bacon cipher and Polybius square, before moving on to transposition ciphers, Playfair ciphers and polyalphabetic ciphers such...
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  • Authorization certificate • Autokey cipher • Avalanche effect B-Dienst • Babington Plot • Baby-step giant-step • Bacon's cipher • Banburismus • Bart Preneel...
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    (1887) Essay on the Sonnets of Shakespeare The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays (1888), in which he maintained he had discovered...
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  • polyalphabetic cipher is a substitution, using multiple substitution alphabets. The Vigenère cipher is probably the best-known example of a polyalphabetic cipher, though...
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  • The Beaufort cipher, created by Sir Francis Beaufort, is a substitution cipher similar to the Vigenère cipher, with a slightly modified enciphering mechanism...
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    A book cipher is a cipher in which each word or letter in the plaintext of a message is replaced by some code that locates it in another text, the key...
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    The Playfair cipher or Playfair square or Wheatstone–Playfair cipher is a manual symmetric encryption technique and was the first literal digram substitution...
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  • technique used can recover the message and then decrypt it. Francis Bacon developed Bacon's cipher as such a technique. In the early days of the printing press...
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  • spelt cipher. There is a modern distinction between cryptography and steganography Sir Francis Bacon gave three fundamental conditions for ciphers. Paraphrased...
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    The rail fence cipher (also called a zigzag cipher) is a classical type of transposition cipher. It derives its name from the manner in which encryption...
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  • that he found in the trunk, which are written in a complicated cipher (Bacon's cipher). Archibald soon proposes marriage to Marjory, but she declines...
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