The History of Book Ciphers

The History of Book Ciphers. Leighton, A. C. & Matyas, S. In Blakley, G. & Chaum, D., editors, Advances in Cryptology, volume 196, of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 101--113. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 1985.

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You can do a lot with a book, besides read it! In fact, we know that by 1526 — some 70 years after Gutenberg printed his first Bible — at least one of out forebears, Jacobus Silvestri, was thinking of how a book might be used for cryptographic purposes. Silverstri wrote of a sort of code book, or dictionary, which he recommended as a means to encipher written communications. For Silvestri, we can trace the development of book ciphers over a period of at least 400 years.

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