Names
The ruler who beheaded their cousin.
Who is Queen Elizabeth?
Cipher made by moving letters over.
What is the Caesar Cipher
The name of the most occurring letter given by al Kindi.
What is "first"?
The way of execution for Mary Queen of Scots.
What is beheading?
Most used letter in the English alphabet.
What is "e"?
Person who made a cipher by shifting every letter three letters over.
Who is Julius Caesar?
The way of hiding a message by writing a message on a piece of paper wrapped around a cylinder.
What is a scytale?
The science of unscrambling a message without the use of a key.
What is cryptanalysis?
Mary Queen of Scot's father.
Who is King James V?
Amount of possibilities for a monoalphabetic substitution cypher.
What is 26!?
Principal Secretary to Queen Elizabeth who found Mary guilty.
Who is Sir Francis Walsingham?
The general name of any substitution cipher in which each letter is replaced by symbols, letter, or both.
What is a mono alphabetic substitution cipher?
Minimum number of letters to be able to use a frequency analysis with a lot of accuracy.
What is 100?
The spymaster who stole the letter.
Who is Gifford?
The reason Mary wished to remove Queen Elizabeth.
What is Elizabeth was a Protestant?
The person who first mentioned secret writing in history.
Who is Herodotus?
The symbol for the word "and" in Mary's cipher
What is 2?
The reason Islamic Culture progressed so far with cryptography.
What is to keep tax records safe?
The job title of the person who got the letter back to its original state to give to the person the letter was intended for.
What is a master counterfeiter.
Name of 200 page novel that did not use the letter "e".
What is La Disparition?
The person that found frequency analysis
Who is al Kindi's
Sparta was saved using this technique of hiding messages.
What is the way way by which someone scrapes wax off of the back of a folding tablet then cover back up the message?
The job that means "those who handle paper" where they copied manuscripts and other writings.
What is warraqin?
The professor who cracked Mary's code.
Who is Thomas Phelippes?
The place the trial was held for Mary Queen of Scots.
What is Fotheringhay Castle?