%0 Journal Article
%T Decryption of historical manuscripts: the DECRYPT project
%A Beata Megyesi
%A Bernhard Esslinger
%A Alicia Fornes
%A Nils Kopal
%A Benedek Lang
%A George Lasry
%A Karl de Leeuw
%A Eva Pettersson
%A Arno Wacker
%A Michelle Waldispuhl
%J Cryptologia
%D 2020
%V 44
%N 6
%F Beata Megyesi2020
%O DAG; 600.140; 600.121
%O exported from refbase (http://refbase.cvc.uab.es/show.php?record=3347), last updated on Tue, 09 Feb 2021 10:40:43 +0100
%X Many historians and linguists are working individually and in an uncoordinated fashion on the identification and decryption of historical ciphers. This is a time-consuming process as they often work without access to automatic methods and processes that can accelerate the decipherment. At the same time, computer scientists and cryptologists are developing algorithms to decrypt various cipher types without having access to a large number of original ciphertexts. In this paper, we describe the DECRYPT project aiming at the creation of resources and tools for historical cryptology by bringing the expertise of various disciplines together for collecting data, exchanging methods for faster progress to transcribe, decrypt and contextualize historical encrypted manuscripts. We present our goals and work-in progress of a general approach for analyzing historical encrypted manuscripts using standardized methods and a new set of state-of-the-art tools. We release the data and tools as open-source hoping that all mentioned disciplines would benefit and contribute to the research infrastructure of historical cryptology.
%K automatic decryption
%K cipher collection
%K historical cryptology
%K image transcription
%U https://doi.org/10.1080/01611194.2020.1716410
%P 545-559