Abstract Many historians and linguists are working individually and in an uncoordinated fashion on the identification and decryption of historical ciphers. This is a time-consuming process as they often work without access to automatic methods and processes that can accelerate the decipherment. At the same time, computer scientists and cryptologists are developing algorithms to decrypt various cipher types without having access to a large number of original ciphertexts. In this paper, we describe the DECRYPT project aiming at the creation of resources and tools for historical cryptology by bringing the expertise of various disciplines together for collecting data, exchanging methods for faster progress to transcribe, decrypt and contextualize historical encrypted manuscripts. We present our goals and work-in progress of a general approach for analyzing historical encrypted manuscripts using standardized methods and a new set of state-of-the-art tools. We release the data and tools as open-source hoping that all mentioned disciplines would benefit and contribute to the research infrastructure of historical cryptology.

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解密历史手稿：DECRYPT 项目

摘要 许多历史学家和语言学家正在各自独立地、以不协调的方式研究历史密码的识别和解密。这是一个耗时的过程，因为它们通常无法访问可以加速破译的自动方法和过程。与此同时，计算机科学家和密码学家正在开发算法来解密各种密码类型，而无需访问大量原始密文。在本文中，我们描述了 DECRYPT 项目，该项目旨在通过将各个学科的专业知识汇集在一起​​来收集数据、交换方法以加快转录、解密和背景化历史加密手稿的进度，从而为历史密码学创建资源和工具。我们介绍了使用标准化方法和一组新的最先进工具分析历史加密手稿的一般方法的目标和正在进行的工作。我们将数据和工具作为开源发布，希望所有提到的学科都能受益并为历史密码学的研究基础设施做出贡献。