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A turning grille from the ancestral castle of the dutch stadtholders

Karl de Leeuw, +1 more
- 01 Apr 1995 - 
- Vol. 19, Iss: 2, pp 153-165
TLDR
In the archive of the Dutch Stadtholder William V an undated, unsolved message of unknown origin was found and is solved and placed in its historical context by correlating the contents of the message with known historical facts.
Abstract
In the archive of the Dutch Stadtholder William V an undated, unsolved message of unknown origin was found. This message is solved and placed in its historical context by correlating the contents of the message with known historical facts. It turns out to be an early example of a turning grille belonging to the correspondence of Stadtholder William IV.

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A Complete Bibliography of Publications in Cryptologia

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The rise of cryptology in the European Renaissance

TL;DR: The rise of cryptology in the Europe of the Renaissance period cannot consider this 15th-century development in a vacuum as mentioned in this paper, and the increasing power of the Italian city states and a growing papal authority may have hastened the perceived need for modern cryptographic methods, but this phenomenon has to be seen from a historical perspective.

The Solving of a Fleissner Grille during an Exercise by the Royal Netherlands Army in 1913

TL;DR: The outbreak of the First World War was to speed up the decision process, but – against all odds – the newly trained experts were not drawn from the ranks that had demonstrated their talent for code breaking a year earlier, because these were destined to follow different career paths altogether.
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A homophonic substitution in the archives of the last great pensionary of holland

Karl de Leeuw, +1 more
- 01 Jul 1993 - 
TL;DR: In the archive of Laurens Pieter van de Spiegel, a Dutch politician in the years shortly before the French Revolution, a message in cipher is solved and is shown to throw light on the important events that in 1787 restored the ruling house of Orange to full power.