Tool to decrypt/encrypt according to Mary, Queen of Scots. Mary Stuart code is a substitution cryptogram by symbols extended to the words used by the Queen of Scots.
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Tool to decrypt/encrypt according to Mary, Queen of Scots. Mary Stuart code is a substitution cryptogram by symbols extended to the words used by the Queen of Scots.
The encryption imagined by Mary Stuart uses a correspondence between letters (but also words) and symbols. The full alphabet, kept secret between her and her correspondents, is
Example: MARY is coded
The alphabet contains 5 blank characters that can be used as space or word separator (this makes the frequency analysis more complex).
Mary Stuart decryption is a simple correspondence between used symbols and letters (or words) in plain text according to the alphabet described above.
Example: is translated to QUEEN.
Mary Stuart (or Mary I of Scotland) was born December 8, 1542 (and died February 8, 1587) was the Queen of Scotland from 1542 to 1567 and Queen consort of France between 1559 and 1560.
A book is dedicated to her and her code here (link)
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