Mary Queen of Scots , the controversial sixteenth century royalty , converge a rather ( raider alert ) grisly stop . And it all had to do with a cracked code . But how did Mary actually direct her clandestine messages — the ones that she ultimately lost her head over ?
Mary communicated using a nix that she changed repeatedly , step in varsity letter for different symbols and fundamentally creating a new alphabet that could be decode by anyone who had the code . She wrote letters communicating with Catholic allies ( England was n’t too well-chosen with the fact that she was n’t a Protestant ) and would hide them in a excavate out spile inside beer barrel that could be smuggled to the receiving system .
But in 1586 , Mary was find out and entrapped by people who think she wanted to have Queen Elizabeth I killed ( Mary would have taken the throne if that had bechance ) after her codification was break . The zilch she used is below , courtesy ofthe Black Chamber .
National Geographic covered the scandal for TV and you could watch a cliphereif you need to learn more . It ’s pretty interesting .
The video help explicate how it all come unraveled for Mary , Queen of Scots :
She ’s unaware at the time that the English state , particularly Francis Walsingham , the secretary of state , has use a man list Thomas Phelippes , who ’s a brilliant cryptographer who has what to the English is a new method acting of crack these codes .
It ’s make love as frequency psychoanalysis and whole kit and boodle by studying how commonly used letters seem when write in code .
Mary , Queen of Scots has get redundant care lately thanks to a Modern Hollywood megahit that fall out today . Admittedly , I have n’t seen the movie yet , so I do n’t even know how the story of Mary ’s cipher is covered .
Correction : An early version of this post said that “ England was n’t too felicitous with the fact that she was a Protestant . ” I , of course of instruction , meant to typewrite “ was n’t ” a Protestant . I rationalise for the error . I also compose “ throw ” or else of “ commode . ” Again , I apologize for being an idiot .
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