Re: VMs: Usenet discussion of the VMS

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

At 03:14 29/01/2004 -0800, David R. Jones wrote:
> There is an interesting discussion about the Voynich on Usenet at the moment:

BTW, one of the people in the thread mentions a "St Cyr slip", but actually 
means a "St Cyr slide", which is mentioned briefly in the 1944 Bletchley 
Park Cryptographic Dictionary here:-
        http://www.codesandciphers.org.uk/documents/cryptdict/

The St Cyr slide was invented by the great modern cryptographer Kerckhoff 
(aka Jean-Guillaume-Hubert-Victor-Francois-Alexandre-Auguste Kerckhoffs von 
Nieuwenhof), who "named it after the French national military academy where 
he studied", according to this nice page from 1998 on breaking ciphers in 
various European languages:-
        http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/coding/379/lesson7.htm

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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