Decrypting Historical Ciphers - A Way of Mathematical Competence Development

Authors

  • Anna Lehofer

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3311/ope.381

Abstract

In our rapidly transforming world, life long learning, the continuous development of key competences are becoming increasingly common phenomena. We can develop our or others' competences through various methodologies or contents. This paper presents historical examples from the discipline of historical cryptology to denote that classical cryptology is applicable to develop mathematical competences with.

Author Biography

Anna Lehofer

Anna Lehofer is a PhD student in cryptology. She is interested in historical cryptology and her research focuses on the decryption methodologies of early modern encrypted manuscripts, especially of homophonic substitution ciphers.

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Published

2020-05-13

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Studies