27-04-2021, 01:36 PM
(This post was last modified: 27-04-2021, 01:48 PM by Mark Knowles.)
(27-04-2021, 01:12 PM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Mark, if it would appear impossible to share the document, surely it's not inappropriate for you to tell us how the method works?
Fair enough, I will.
My caution has been just that I don't want to antagonise the Florence State Archive or cause them any annoyance or nuisance. It is very likely that I am going to ask the archive for more photoreproductions in the future and sometimes locating the documents when the customer cannot visit the archive is a nuisance for them. I would be interested in seeing the original letters from which this specific cipher key was generated. Also the archivist who generated the cipher key wrote an published book in the archives called "Crittografia Fiorentina" and there may be some interesting comments there. I don't want to create extra work for the archivists especially as I am unlikely to visit the Florence State Archives any time soon.