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Reading about #Deciphering Mary #Stuart's lost letters from 1578-1584 in https://doi.org/10.1080/01611194.2022.2160677 I wonder if much older #phonographic or #logographic writing systems, which are not #encrypted as such ... are always as "easy" to #decipher.
Had the #Elamicon deciphering tool in my bookmarks, still looks interesting for a #layperson:
https://center-for-decipherment.ch/tool/

#Phonogram #Logogram #Entzifferungstool #LinearElamite

Deciphering Mary Stuart’s lost letters from 1578-1584

Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1542–1587), has left an extensive corpus of letters held in various archive collections. There is evidence, however that other letters from Mary Stuart are missing from...

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@marcel says that Key management was pretty sophisticated for the time (referring to #Stuart letters)
https://waldvogel.family/@marcel/109840823193328817
Marcel Waldvogel (@[email protected])

#Mary Queen of Scots had to use encryption when she wrote letters from her prison cell. Key management was pretty sophisticated for the time (different keys for different recipients), requiring decryption to use a lot of tools and trial-and-error. Read the story of the decryption and a summary of her letters here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01611194.2022.2160677

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