RecordNumber
3711
Author
Boxer, Alexander
Crop_Body
Alexander Boxer
Title of Article
Some Interactive Tools for Examining Renaissance Ciphers
Title Of Journal
Bridges
Publication Year
2016
Abstract
This paper describes interactive tools for exploring the ciphers in Johannes Trithemius’ Steganographia (1500).
These tools have been implemented on the website Trithemius Redivivus (http://trithemius.com) and provide
capabilities to (1) apply Trithemius’ cryptographic techniques on any text, (2) display letter-frequency histograms of
the output, and (3) rank the outputs according to their relative entropy, computed with respect to a reference text.