23/03/2019

Two Further Uses of Spanish Ciphers under Philip II

I updated "Spanish Ciphers during the Reign of Philip II" by Bernard Allaire, "Le décodage de la correspondance chiffrée des diplomates espagnols au XVIe siècle" and Jacques de Monts de Savasse, "Les chiffres de la correspondance diplomatique des ambassadeurs d'Henri IV, en l'année 1590", in Correspondre jadis et naguère. In particular, the former shows use of the cipher Cp.30 earlier than what was considered to be the issuance date of 1581.

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