Scholars and scientists have sought to decipher the text since the manuscript was first discovered.
The background, too, is of small, variously patterned patches, so that it is hard to decipher the text.
Most encryption programs will translate your message into gibberish and require the same program and a password to decipher the text on the other end.
It may be difficult to decipher the text scratched onto the left surface; the Latin words come from "Carmina Burana," a collection of medieval poems and vespers.
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Among the many people who tried to decipher the text were renowned World War II cryptologists William and Elizebeth Friedman, art historian Erwin Panofsky, intelligence specialists, and scholars of chemistry, law, mathematics, medieval philosophy, and other fields.
In its most recent report, the A.O. noted fifteen encounters with encryption in the course of a wiretap; it was unable to decipher the text in four instances, noting that it was the first time "that jurisdictions have reported that encryption prevented officials from obtaining the plain text of the communications since the A.O. began collecting encryption data in 2001".
It was published in German only in 2009 thanks to the extraordinary editing skills of Jenny Williams and Sabine Lange, who deciphered the text, unravelled the deliberately confusing structure, and reconciled the original with a post-war typescript in which the author settled some personal scores and toned down some embarrassing passages.
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Continue on in this manner until you completely decipher the text.
