Encrypted Books – Mysteries that Fill Hundreds of Pages

Sponsored by The Book Club of California.

The lecturers have studied about 120 books that are entirely or partially encrypted. In this talk, they introduce the most fascinating ones. This includes the famous Voynich Manuscript, a 15th century tome that has never been deciphered, and the Rohonc Codex, a 17th century creation that was recently solved by Hungarian scientists. It also includes encrypted diaries, books published by secret societies, as well as enciphered books created by artists. Among the highlights are the encrypted 19th century science fiction books by Charles Dellschau, a prisoner-of-war diary disguised as a collection of mathematical tables, and an unusual Renaissance magic book, which was deciphered in the 1990s. It will be explained how the encryption techniques involved work and how they were broken.

A virtual presentation by Elonka Dunin, author, video game developer, and cryptologist and Klaus Schmer, author, lecturer, and cryptologist.

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