Some famous ciphertexts (or cryptograms) are:
- 11B-X-1371
- The Babington Plot ciphers
- Beale ciphers
- The Book of the Law
- Copiale cipher
- Chaocipher
- Cicada 3301
- The cryptogram in "The Gold-Bug"
- Cryptogram of Olivier Levasseur
- D'Agapeyeff cipher
- Dorabella Cipher
- Kryptos
- The Magic Words are Squeamish Ossifrage
- Markovian Parallax Denigrate
- Ricky McCormick's encrypted notes
- Phaistos Disc
- The use of the Purple (cipher machine) by Japan before the Pearl Harbor Attack
- Quipu
- The Rohonc Codex
- The Shugborough inscription
- Tamam Shud case
- Smithy code embedded within the 2006 judgement on The Da Vinci Code case
- Voynich Manuscript
- The Zimmermann Telegram
- Zodiac Killer ciphers - see Zodiac 340 Letter
Taken from the Wikipedia page at [1].
See also
- Elonka's List of Famous Unsolved Codes and Ciphers
Further cyphers