Tool to decrypt/encrypt as a Knight Templar. Knights Templars Ciphers is a substitution code replacing letters by symbols from the Maltese Cross, icon of Order of the Temple.
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Templars Cipher
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Answers to Questions (FAQ)
What is the knights templar cipher? (Definition)
The Templar cipher is a substitution encryption system historically used by the (Knights) Templars (a Christian military order) in the Middle Ages to protect their communications.
The Templar code uses 25 symbols (pieces of the Maltese Cross) to represent the letters of the alphabet.
How to encrypt using Knights Templar cipher?
To encode a message like the Templars, replace each letter with the corresponding Templar symbol:
| A | .png) | B | .png) | C | .png) | D | .png) | E | .png) |
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| F | .png) | G | .png) | H | .png) | I | .png) | K | .png) |
| L | .png) | M | .png) | N | .png) | O | .png) | P | .png) |
| Q | .png) | R | .png) | S | .png) | T | .png) | U | .png) |
| V | .png) | W | .png) | X | .png) | Y | .png) | Z | .png) |
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The letter J is missing, it is customary to replace it with the letter I.
Some sources have the letters L and K swapped (see FAQ).
Example: ASSASSIN is written
The numbers (0-9) have no symbol and are not replaced.
How to decrypt using Knights Templar cipher?
Templar decryption requires converting each symbol to their corresponding letter.
Example: is decrypted TEMPLE
Some sources have the letters L and K swapped.
How to recognize Templars ciphertext?
The ciphered message is made from symbols with angles, triangles, with at most one dot per symbol.
The message has at most 25 distinct characters.
Any reference to the Knights Templars or Solomon's Militia (with a reputation of killers/assassins) is a clue.
The Pig-Pen cipher and Rosicrucian ciphers are similar.
Why is the J letter missing?
The letter J did not exist when encryption was invented, it was a graphic variant of the letter I, and the J only appeared around the 16th century.
Why are the letters K and L sometimes swapped?
Several writings refer to the Templar alphabet, the main one is The Knights Templars by A. Bothwell-Gosse. Pages 89 and 90 the letter K points to the left and the letter L upwards.
Another source is Histoire des Sectes Religieuses by H. Grégoire (1828). Volume II, page 428, the letter K points to the left and the letter L to the top.
The code may have evolved, but it is likely that the inversions of K and L are errors.
Who created the Templar Cipher?
The cipher was created by the Templars, the name given to members of the Order of the Temple, a religious and military group (chivalry) from the Middle Ages, known for his crusades.
When was the Templars Cipher invented?
No one knows when or how this system appeared, but traces of the existence of the Templar code go back to handwritten letters from the 12th or 13th century.
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- Knights Templar Decoder
- Knights Templar Encoder
- What is the knights templar cipher? (Definition)
- How to encrypt using Knights Templar cipher?
- How to decrypt using Knights Templar cipher?
- How to recognize Templars ciphertext?
- Why is the J letter missing?
- Why are the letters K and L sometimes swapped?
- Who created the Templar Cipher?
- When was the Templars Cipher invented?
