Key Design in the Early Modern Era in Europe

Authors

  • Béata Megyesi
  • Crina Tudor
  • Benedek Láng
  • Anna Lehofer

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3384/ecp183165

Keywords:

historical cipher keys, evolution of keys, keys' morphology and typology

Abstract

We present an empirical study on historical keys in their original form from Early Modern Times (1400-1800) in Europe. We describe the internal structure of keys, and specify what was encoded and how. We present some trends of the construction of historical keys over time. Some of these trends have been sensed but never systematically documented by crypto historians, some other trends however are revealed here for the first time.

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Published

2021-08-09

Issue

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Historical Cryptology HistoCrypt 2021

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Copyright (c) 2021 Béata Megyesi, Crina Tudor, Benedek Láng, Anna Lehofer

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.