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The '''Copiale cipher''' is a [[cipher]] consisting of 75,000 handwritten characters filling 105 pages in a bound volume, found in an archive in former East Germany, at the East Berlin Academy. It includes symbols as well as letters in the [[Greek alphabet|Greek]] and [[Latin alphabet|Roman]] alphabets. The only plain text in the book is "Copiales 3" and "Philipp 1866." It is thought to date to the 18th century. |
The '''Copiale cipher''' is a [[cipher]] consisting of 75,000 handwritten characters filling 105 pages in a bound volume, found in an archive in former East Germany, at the East Berlin Academy. It includes symbols as well as letters in the [[Greek alphabet|Greek]] and [[Latin alphabet|Roman]] alphabets. The only plain text in the book is "Copiales 3" and "Philipp 1866." It is thought to date to the 18th century. In 2011, it was decoded using modern computer techniques by Kevin Knight of the [[University of Southern California]], along with Beáta Megyesi and Christiane Schaefer of [[Uppsala University]] in Sweden. They found it to be a complex [[Substitution cipher|substitution code]], and that the initial portion of 16 pages, which they transcribed and decoded, describes an initiation ceremony for an unidentified [[Secret society|secret society]]. <ref name=Markoff>[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/science/25code.html]Markoff, John "How revolutionary tools cracked a 1700s code," The New York Times, October 24, 2011. Retrieved October 25, 2011.</ref><ref name=ACL>[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology-new/W/W11/W11-12.pdf#page=12]Knight, Kevin, Megyesi, Beáta and Schaefer, Christiane "The Copiale Cipher," Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on building and using comparable corpora, pages 2-9, 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Comparable Linguistics, 24 June 2011. Retrieved October 25, 2011</ref>The document describes an initiation ritual involving the plucking of eyebrows. The secret organization predates noted occult groups such as the [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]]. The remaining 89 pages of the manuscript remain to be transcribed and decoded. <ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2053229/How-Google-Translate-helped-crack-unbreakable-code-1866.html?ITO=1490]Waugh. Rob "How translation software helped crack 'unbreakable' code in 1866 secret society manuscript'' Daily Mail, October 35, 2011. Retrieved October 25, 2011</ref> |
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Revision as of 15:52, 25 October 2011
The Copiale cipher is a cipher consisting of 75,000 handwritten characters filling 105 pages in a bound volume, found in an archive in former East Germany, at the East Berlin Academy. It includes symbols as well as letters in the Greek and Roman alphabets. The only plain text in the book is "Copiales 3" and "Philipp 1866." It is thought to date to the 18th century. In 2011, it was decoded using modern computer techniques by Kevin Knight of the University of Southern California, along with Beáta Megyesi and Christiane Schaefer of Uppsala University in Sweden. They found it to be a complex substitution code, and that the initial portion of 16 pages, which they transcribed and decoded, describes an initiation ceremony for an unidentified secret society. [1][2]The document describes an initiation ritual involving the plucking of eyebrows. The secret organization predates noted occult groups such as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The remaining 89 pages of the manuscript remain to be transcribed and decoded. [3]
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- ^ [1]Markoff, John "How revolutionary tools cracked a 1700s code," The New York Times, October 24, 2011. Retrieved October 25, 2011.
- ^ [2]Knight, Kevin, Megyesi, Beáta and Schaefer, Christiane "The Copiale Cipher," Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on building and using comparable corpora, pages 2-9, 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Comparable Linguistics, 24 June 2011. Retrieved October 25, 2011
- ^ [3]Waugh. Rob "How translation software helped crack 'unbreakable' code in 1866 secret society manuscript Daily Mail, October 35, 2011. Retrieved October 25, 2011