Paolo Bonavoglia
Mathesis Venezia c/o Convitto-Liceo Marco Foscarini 4942 Venezia, Italy
Download articlehttps://doi.org/10.3384/ecp2020171006Published in: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Historical Cryptology HistoCrypt 2020
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 171:6, p. 36-45
NEALT Proceedings Series 44:6, p. 36-45
Published: 2020-05-19
ISBN: 978-91-7929-827-2
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
Pietro Partenio’s second cipher in the CX1 book of 1592-93 is an unusual mix of a cifra sospetta (suspicious cipher) and a cifra non sospetta (non suspicious ci-pher), that is cryptography and steganog-raphy. The cipher has some possible roots in Trithemius’s Ave Maria, Vigenère’s and Francis Bacon’s ciphers.
Partenio; Venice; steganography; Trithemius; Ave Maria; Blaise de Vigenére; Francis Bacon