A Musical Cipher Challenge – End of 2021 – Win a Crypto Book

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This is the last video of 2021. It has been an interesting year for CrypTool 2 (CT2) and this YouTube channel. We released two stable CT2 versions and added a lot of components to CT2. In parallel to this, we created many interesting videos about cryptologic topics and released these on this channel. We got a lot of nice and helpful feedback, for CT2 as well as for the channel videos :-) Thank you for that!

In this video, we present the first version of a new CT2 component (Symbol Cipher) which right now allows to encrypt text using a musical cipher created by German orentialist, mathematican, and cryptograph Daniel Schwenter.

Using his cipher (and something else :-)), we created a ciphertext. The first one, who sends the correct plaintext to cryptool2(AT)gmx.net will win a copy of Helen Foché Gaines book "Cryptanalysis – a study of ciphers and their solution" :-)

We hope that you have a good start of 2022 and enjoy some free time with your family!

You can download the image of the challenge ciphertext here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10kLKqKcHgx4N88E4nU6uuNypkJ39Jsb2/view?usp=sharing

Here is an interesting blog article from Klaus Schmeh about musical ciphers: https://scienceblogs.de/klausis-krypto-kolumne/2020/10/14/a-musical-cryptogram-from-1854/

If you are interested in learning the fundaments of cryptology, let me invite you to have a look at our video series about the basics of cryptology, also for beginners: https://youtu.be/jbumW7Ym03o

You can download the latest version of CrypTool 2 from here: https://www.cryptool.org/en/ct2/downloads

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