30-12-2020, 03:00 AM
(This post was last modified: 30-12-2020, 03:03 AM by Mark Knowles.)
(30-12-2020, 02:29 AM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(30-12-2020, 12:59 AM)Mark Knowles wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(29-12-2020, 09:15 PM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It's a simple substitution cipher. A mnemonic one. It takes 10 minutes to break it.
I was not implying that substitution ciphers were never used for secrecy.
So why did you mention that it takes 10 minutes to break? It seems that you are implying that a cipher which states 10 minutes to break could not have been used for secrecy. I think you are looking at this through a modern lens.
(30-12-2020, 02:29 AM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.If you had actually read my blog, all of it, you would have seen me mention that Fontana WROTE A BOOK on mnemonic strategies and ways to arrange letters.I have already discussed with you your mnemonic theory of Fontana's cipher symbols and expressed my opinion that you overstate the "mnemonic" nature of the cipher symbols.