Editing Dorabella Cipher (section)

== 2007 Elgar Society Competition ==

The [[Elgar Society]] advertised a Dorabella Cipher Competition in 2007 to mark the 150th anniversary of Elgar's birth. A number of entries were received but none were found to be satisfactory: "One or two entries did contain some impressively ambitious and thoughtful analysis. These entries, though, having matched Elgar's symbols to the alphabet, invariably ended up with a fairly arbitrary sequence of letters. ... [T]he results read as a disconnected chain of bizarre utterances, such as an imaginative mind could conjure up from any group of random letters".<ref>No longer on Elgar.org: archival copy at {{cite web|url=http://www.aerobushentertainment.com/crypto/index.php?topic%3D4.msg388#msg388 |title=Intro to the Cipher |accessdate=2010-02-08 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707092100/http://www.aerobushentertainment.com/crypto/index.php?topic=4.msg388 |archivedate=2011-07-07 }}</ref>