Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Caesar cipher

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[edit] Caesar cipher

Partial self nomination. There isn't a great deal that can be said about Caesar ciphers, but I think this article covers most of it. — Matt Crypto 01:10, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

  • Well referenced and linked. Has sufficient pictures and is comprehensive and coherent as far as I can tell. Support. Mgm|(talk) 11:23, Mar 27, 2005 (UTC)
  • Support. Concise and precise. Phils 19:45, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Support. More history would be nice (Sherlock Holmes solved them at a glance, probably), but what's there is good. Tempshill 01:54, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
    • I managed to find and add another example of their historical use from David Kahn's The Codebreakers (lovers communicating using the personals section in newspapers in the 1800s), but I don't think there's much else recorded about the real-world use of these ciphers. (As you say, Holmes was undoubtedly familiar with them. He once pointed out that he was "fairly familiar with all forms of secret writing" and was "the author of a trifling monograph upon the subject in which I analyse one hundred and sixty separate ciphers." If only Wikipedia was as comprehensive!) — Matt Crypto 09:31, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Support. Nice work, Matt. Securiger 11:53, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Support. Nicely done. Anville 20:29, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Support - seems a trifle short, but I can't think of anything more that needs to be said, so I should praise its concision instead. -- ALoan (Talk) 21:11, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)
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