Was it Mary against Elizabeth, or Elizabeth against Mary? But Walsingham was in control of the whole communication process. When I look at the cipher key, it is clear that nobody could ever possibly decipher a message using that cipher without the key. However, I do see how a scoundrel could invent that key in order to make a benign message encoded with a different cipher say something treasonous. I really like the thought of that twist, Muset…..
It questions the truth of how history was recorded…. What is Freemasonry? Queen Mary cipher The breaking of the cipher of Mary, Queen of Scots, had grave circumstances and stands testament today for the need of nonpareil security. Mary Queen of Scots beheading The fatal messages were secured in a watertight stopper of beer barrels. They included more than ciphers used in her correspondence.
Tudor espionage was quite sophisticated and several different codes were used in secret correspondence. One of the most common was to shuffle letters of the alphabet in a certain sequence so that once the key had been worked out the message could be read quickly and easily.
Alternatively, individual letters were sometimes substituted with numbers, characters, symbols or signs of the zodiac. Two of the best known are Thomas Phelippes and John Sommers. Here you can see a mock-up of the letters that were sent between Mary Queen of Scots and Anthony Babington:.
The cipher that Mary used is shown below. It has a cipher alphabet, with substitutions for each letter from A to Z. The cipher also contains some code symbols for the most common words, and some more sophisticated symbols.
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