Tool to encrypt/decrypt with the Copiale Cipher/Code, used in an 18th century encrypted manuscript that was decoded in 2011.
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Copiale Cipher
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Answers to Questions (FAQ)
What is Copiale Cipher? (Definition)
The Copiale code is the name given to a substitution alphabet (homophonic) discovered in a fully encrypted manuscript, whose only inscriptions are Philipp, 1866 and 'Copiales 3'.
The manuscript was decoded by a team of researchers in 2011. The content of the book describes in German language, an initiation ceremony for a secret society.
How to encrypt using Copiale cipher?
The Copiale code uses a homophonic substitution alphabet (several characters can correspond to the same starting character).
Example: COPIALE can be written .png)
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or also .png)
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Here is the correspondence table found by the researchers:
| A | .png) |
|---|---|
| Ä | .png) |
| B | .png) |
| C | |
| D | .png) .png) |
| E | .png) .png) .png) .png) .png) |
| F | .png) |
| G | .png) .png) |
| H | .png) |
| I | .png) |
| J | .png) |
| K | .png) |
| L | |
| M | .png) |
| N | .png) .png) .png) .png) |
| O | |
| Ö | .png) |
| P | |
| R | .png) .png) .png) |
| S | .png) .png) |
| T | .png) |
| U | .png) .png) |
| Ü | .png) |
| V | .png) |
| W | .png) |
| X | .png) |
| Y | .png) |
| Z | .png) |
| SCH | .png) |
| ST | .png) |
| CH | .png) |
| EN | .png) |
| EM | |
| ⌴ | .png) .png) .png) .png) .png) .png) .png) .png) .png) .png) .png) .png) .png) .png) .png) .png) .png) .png) .png) .png) .png) .png) .png) .png) .png) |
The letter Q has no translation. The space character is systematically encoded.
How to decrypt Copiale cipher?
The decryption of the Copiale code is an inverse substitution, each character is then translated into a letter of the Latin alphabet or a space (or in rare cases, a group of letters).
There are a few exceptions: first the character .png)
seems to be used to repeat the previous letter (often a consonant). Then, several characters have no meaning: .png)
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How to recognize a Copiale ciphertext? (Identification)
The text is composed of characters from the Latin alphabet, a few Greek letters, and a minority of various glyphs.
No spaces are visible in the text (because spaces are encrypted by a letter)
Any references to a secret society, German or in Germany or to a manuscript are clues.
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