VMs: Books on Czech cryptography

["PK#01" <pklist01@xxxxxxxxx>]

I got an answer from the Prague University!
Next time I'm in Prague I'll try to look at these books.
Or maybe Rafal could see if he can get them in Poland?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Karel Nesmerak" <nesmerak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pklist01@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Jiri Urban" <urban@xxxxxxxxxxx>; "Jaroslav Gagan" <gagan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 12:17 PM
Subject: Stara ceska kryptografie


> Vazeny pane Kazile,
>
> kolega Ing. Gagan mi preposlal Vas dopis, ve kterem se zajimate
> o starou ceskou kryptografii. Dekujeme Vam i za Vas zajem o problematiku
> Rukopisu kralovedvorskeho a zelenohorskeho, ktera vsak s problematikou
> kryptografie a sifrovani nema nic spolecneho.
>
> K Vasemu dotazu na ceskou literaturu o kryptografii a sifrovani v obdobi
> 15.-17. století Vas mohu odkazat predevsim na prace
>
> * Kaspar, J.: Soubor stati o novovekem pismu. Praha, Karolinum 1993.
>   ISBN 80-7066-679-X. str. 177-209 (kapitola: Tajna pisma v novoveku).
> * Kaspar, J.: Prispevek k reseni tajneho pisma ze 17. stoleti.
>   Acta Universitatis Carolinae 1963, Phil. et historica 5, s. 95-107.
> * Ryba, B.: K tajnemu pismu v listech Husovych.
>   Sbornik historicky 1, 1953, s. 56-52.
>
> Zejmena v prvni praci je siroce citovana dalsi ceska i zahranicni
> literatura. Velmi uzitecna by pro Vas mohla byt i kniha
>
> * Huttenhain, E.: Die Geheimschriften der Furstbistums Munster unter
>   Christoph Bernhard von Gallen 1650-1678. Munster 1974.
>
> Snad Vam alespon castecne tyto odkazy pomohou.
> Se srdecnym pozdravem
>
> RNDr. Karel Nesmerak, Ph.D.
> Ceska spolecnost rukopisna
> e-mail: nesmerak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> www: http://www.natur.cuni.cz/~nesmerak/
>
> > From: "PK#01" <pklist01@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <gagan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ot=E1zka_o_star=E9_cesk=E9_cryptografii?=
> > Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 20:13:22 +0100
> >
> > Dear Sir,
> >
> > I saw your website about old Czech manuscripts and maybe you can help
me.
> >
> > I'm looking for books, papers and any useful information about any
> > cryptographic methods that were used in the "Czech" countries in the
period
> > 1400-1600. I know many studies about cryptography in Italy, Germany and
> > England, but I'm looking for information on cryptography in "Middle
Europe".
> >
> > I'm not an academic researcher, but I'm involved with the enigmatic
"Voynich
> > manuscript". I'm one of the members of the informal working group that
> > studies it. If you're interested you can find more information on the
many
> > websites of the study group, for example: http://www.voynich.nu/ , or on
the
> > archive of the mailing list: http://www.voynich.net/,
> > http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/mirror/reeds/vmail.html
> >
> > If I could find some information about the state of cryptographic
knowledge
> > in Bohemia, then it could support (or disprove) one of the current
> > hypotheses - that it is a hoax document made at the time of Rudolf II.
> >
> > If you could give me any information on this subject it would be very
> > welcome - a book, an author's name, the name of someone who studies this
> > subject, the name of a scietifica magazine, a library or archive where
they
> > could help me. I can read the Czech language, so you can answer me in
Czech.
> >
> > Sincerely yours, Petr Kazil
> > Rotterdam
> > The Netherlands
>

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