The 300-year-old password was broken

US and Swedish researchers broke the Copiale cryptography that existed for the past 300 years with the help of a computer program, according to AFP.

'This opens a time for people to study the history of thought and history of secret societies , ' said computer scientist Kevin Knight of the University of Southern California in a October 26 announcement.

'Historians believe that secret societies have a role to play in revolutions but all remain unanswered and the reason is largely because there are so many encrypted documents,' said Knight.

The 75,000-character Copiale code describes the ritual and political orientation of a secret society in Germany in the 18th century.

The rituals are coded with a series of confusing characters with scattered Roman and Greek characters. This document records the order of new member admission as well as how the members of the secret society can get to know each other.

Knight, together with scientists from the University of Uppsala in Sweden, Beata Megyesi and Christiane Schaefer, used a computer program designed to help determine the number of repetitions of certain characters and identify images. other samples.

After breaking the cipher Copiale, Knight intends to conquer other famous encoded messages, including the code of the Zodiac Assassin, a serial killer in the US in the 1960s and 1970s, sent Encryption messages for the press and have never been caught.

Knight also wanted to try the program with Kryptos cryptography, the encoded message on a sculpture at the headquarters of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the Medieval Voynich Manuscript, one of the The most mysterious manuscripts ever found.