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Mysterious Voynich manuscript may be a cipher, a new study suggests

A unique cipher that uses playing cards and dice to turn languages into glyphs produces text eerily similar to the glyphs in ...
The Art Newspaper

Can a new cipher help to explain the mysterious Voynich Manuscript?

“The Naibbe cipher is my attempt to find a way to encode something like Latin by hand as text that partially mimics the ...
The Repository

Wood on Words: Agreeing on ‘consensus,’ ‘panacea’ and ‘cipher’

The U.S. Senate has 100 members. How many of them must agree on something for it to be considered a consensus? There are two misconceptions about the word “consensus.” One is that it’s related to ...
The Boston Globe

From letters to apps, the secret code language of lovers

In one of Warren G. Harding’s torrid love letters to his mistress Carrie Fulton Phillips, sent during the 1910s and ’20s, the future US president enclosed a long list of code words that the couple ...