All about the Chaocipher…
I’m getting a bit cheesed off with the Internet: every time I do a search for anything Cipher Mysteries-ish, it seems that half Google’s hits are for ghastly sites listing “Top 10 Unsolved Mysteries”...
View ArticleThe Chaocipher revealed!
“The Chaocipher” is a devious cipher system invented in 1918 by John F. Byrne: allegedly, it was so complex that nobody could crack his challenge ciphertexts (even with the plaintext to refer to!), yet...
View ArticleThe Chaocipher got Slashdotted!
The Internet is a strange thing, a virtual photographer’s jacket crammed with countless pockets of enthusiasts. For example, you beautiful cipher mysteries fans circulate within one bijou (but...
View ArticleChaocipher updates…
Like hourly buses on a wet winter morning, here’s a pair of Chaocipher pages that arrived at my stop one after the other, both discussing how to break John Byrne’s Exhibit 1, and both strongly...
View ArticleMoshe Rubin’s Cryptologia Chaocipher article, now viewable online…
Moshe Rubin just emailed me to let me know that his extensive October 2011 Cryptologia article “John F. Byrne’s Chaocipher Revealed: An Historical and Technical Appraisal” (vol. 35 issue 4, pp.328-379...
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