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4. Cylob Cryptogram


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1995 aquired a book in a London
second-hand book store

Cylob (Chris Jeffs)
British Rock Musician


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Title page


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1/2


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3/4


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5/6


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7/8


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9/10


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11/12


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13/14


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15/16

Contains no letters,
no numbers
Content and purpose
are completely
unknown


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10. Blitz Ciphers


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Blitz Cipher
• found by an anonymous person
• this person informed Nick Pelling
• Pelling named it „Blitz Cipher“

Pelling


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Blitz Cipher
• only three pages available
• not broken


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Transcription

BMnESCMXJoEDji
dYajJAQeEJVWYE
MlFZAYkETDlJC
fBDJiCEgIQpMBk
YkBSTZqYjMrqBl
BSBjEeSEMD
BCEY
ABCDEFGHIJKLGMNFEO
PQRkEGSTjUCVBWXAYZ
ILaMCEBbZXcdDSDebJ
fgIYcdMeiCYejSDB
FXYSDeFHEkkCjSAeDE
GMaQejMEDEMAZDlTbIeX
SBCBl
SBSDEe
jMpnEl
MEnYlBCEDlGeBMUElsmLDCYE
dDlSDEQKGYASDQHEDCD
QgCMsmYJoUWFBWgVCED
MfSaQiBBXCJoE
SBDBlDMDBl
fTBeMCZS
dsECEDYrEE
JBeSBCBSEDBeebDlrES
BCDBDEMCEDEYbEg
ieeXYBDiSqEQM
SCEDCEeS
lBDSC
BeYkElE
VvEBultgLYQXCcjIcSIEBMqEdqlT
SBHATmYgEIDBjZXYBDDIpddZMDAVE
AQZBFjBqEetEuHebggdXYBnEIDeQmM
jgmHZYeeAEBdSgtjvMLgjEslUd
SlfBjgmMpXndZlwDgltjJoDm
FxMjCeANcjKnjMZHlTRlBfREl
dEDtuKNKMjAEDGToglEAVRZA
mcCZlpZdnBcmEGkED


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Conclusion


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There is still much room for research:

• look for more encrypted books
• try to get hold of the
unavailable books
• crack the uncracked
• decrypt the cracked books


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Encrypted books are a
great field of research
There is still a lot of
work to do


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End
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