I was recently reading Her majesty's spymaster (about Walsingham), and it discussed the ciphers of the time and codebreaking methods.
Growing up, I used to be a whiz at the cryptogram puzzles in Games magazine, and then I thought about the lack of standardized spelling in Elizabethan English and became much more impressed with the efforts of Phillipes and others...
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Date: 2006-03-02 12:10 pm (UTC)I was recently reading Her majesty's spymaster (about Walsingham), and it discussed the ciphers of the time and codebreaking methods.
Growing up, I used to be a whiz at the cryptogram puzzles in Games magazine, and then I thought about the lack of standardized spelling in Elizabethan English and became much more impressed with the efforts of Phillipes and others...