Two more encrypted postcards wait to be solved. Can a reader help?

A number of encrypted postcards from different times and places wait to be solved. Can a reader help?

A museum in Paris, France, keeps a notebook of French painter Camille Corot (1796-1875). A page in this document is encrypted. Can somebody break this cryptogram?

Blog reader Dominique Eggerstedt has found a bottle post in a canal in Northern Germany. It contains some text parts that look encrypted. Can a reader solve this mystery?

Blog reader Rosemarie Kohles from Coburg owns an old postcard written in a shorthand. Can somebody decrypt it for her?

The longest key ever publicly broken by exhaustive key search was 64 bits long. If you solve the cryptogram I introduce in this blog post, you can set a new record.

A recent article in the Sherlock Holmes fan magazine “The Baker Street Chronicle” reports on the relationship between the world’s greatest private detective and cryptology. In addition, it covers a few unsolved cryptograms from a real Victorian investigator.

A researcher from Liechtenstein has asked me for help. She has encountered three partially encrypted letters from the early 19th century. Can a reader decrypt them?

Today’s post is about a book with strange illustrations written in an unknown script. This book still waits to be deciphered. And no, I’m not talking about the Voynich manuscript.

A crypto book published in 1808 contains an exercise cryptogram. The solution is not given. Can you find it?