Rare 17th century crypto book for auction.

Steven M. Bellovin smb at cs.columbia.edu
Wed Sep 12 14:27:35 EDT 2007


On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:28:51 -0400
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry at piermont.com> wrote:

> 
> A rare 17th century crypto book is being auctioned.
> 
> http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/4122383/
> 
As I commented to Bruce, see what Kahn says about it:  "But the work,
while containing some cipher systems, mainly defends the occultism of
Trithemius".


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb

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