Fontana, was Re: VMs: Blanks

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Zitat von Philip Neal <philipneal_vms@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

> 
> ... 
> They are the Fontana manuscripts: see
> 
> http://mysite.freeserve.com/philipneal_vms/fontana.html
> ...
> Philip Neal
> 

It is interesting to note on

http://mysite.freeserve.com/philipneal_vms/omont2.html

that in Fontana's alphabet the vowels received a particular treatment: All of 
them consist of an "o" with a dash to one direction. Seemingly it didn't occur 
to Fontana that marking a letter this way would make the code easier to break...

But it also seems to point to the fact that the cryptologists of that era 
already distinguished between vowels and consonants. Does anybody know whether 
that was common in period? Did anybody employ this distinction in their schemes?

Cheers,

   Elmar


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