TY  - JOUR
AU  - Beata Megyesi
AU  - Bernhard Esslinger
AU  - Alicia Fornes
AU  - Nils Kopal
AU  - Benedek Lang
AU  - George Lasry
AU  - Karl de Leeuw
AU  - Eva Pettersson
AU  - Arno Wacker
AU  - Michelle Waldispuhl
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Decryption of historical manuscripts: the DECRYPT project
T2  - CRYPT
JO  - Cryptologia
SP  - 545
EP  - 559
VL  - 44
IS  - 6
KW  - automatic decryption
KW  - cipher collection
KW  - historical cryptology
KW  - image transcription
N2  - 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.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1080/01611194.2020.1716410
N1  - DAG; 600.140; 600.121
ID  - Beata Megyesi2020
ER  -