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Record Information
ID:932
Name:TNA_SP106/10_UND_(0251-0252)
Current Location
Country:United Kingdom
City:Kew
City:The National Archives, State Papers, inv.nr. 106 box 10.
Origin
Dates: -
Author:Unknown
Sender:
Receiver:Lord Goring
Region:England
City:York
Content
Type:Cipher
Status:Partially decrypted
Cipher Type:Homophonic substitution
Symbol Sets:Numerical
Pages:2
Creation
Owner:19
Creator:19
Creation Date:2018-11-28 00:00:00
Access mode:Authentication required

ID 932
Name TNA_SP106/10_UND_(0251-0252)
Owner
Current Location and Name Kew,The National Archives, State Papers, inv.nr. 106 box 10.
TNA_SP106/10_UND_(0251-0252)
Dates 1645 -
Authors Unknown
England York
Languages Cleartext:
Plaintext:English
Country United Kingdom
City Kew
Holder The National Archives, State Papers, inv.nr. 106 box 10.
Author Unknown
Sender
Receiver Lord Goring
Region England
Origin City York
Start Year 1645
Start Month 6
Start Day 5
End Year
End Month
End Day
Record
Type
Cipher
Status Partially decrypted
Symbol Set Numerical
Cipher Type Homophonic substitution
Cipher Type (notes)
Symbol Sets (notes)
No. of Pages 2
Inline Cleartext No
Inline Plaintext No
Cleartext
Language
Plaintext
Language
English
Private Ciphertext True
Available Documents Deciphered textKeyTranscription
Paper
Access Mode Authentication required
Creation Date 11/28/18
Key: encoded plaintext type
Key: numbers
Key: content words
Key: function words
Key: syllables
Key: morphological endings
Key: phrases
Key: sentences
Key: punctuation
Key: nomenclature size
Key: sections
Key: headings
Key: plaintext arrangement
Key: ciphertext arrangement
Key: memorability
Key: symbol set
Key: diacritics
Key: code length
Key: code types
Key: metaphors
Key: material properties
Key: instructions

Additional Information
Two strips of paper with 4, resp. 6 lines of code, 140 and 200 codegroups in sum total. The almost exclusive use of 1- and 2-digit numbers suggests that we are dealing with a homophonic substitution cipher. On the basis of storage and handwriting it seems likely that we are dealing with the same cipher here, but this has yet to be established. This cipher probably dates from the English Civil War.
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