Re:French scientists decode 500-year-old letter
by z3c0 on Sunday November 27, 2022 @06:38AM
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So cool that the creators of the cipher were accounting for the probility distribution of common characters. Giovan Battista Bellas published his implementation of the Vigenère cipher in 1553[1], and this letter was encoded a few years before that. Very cutting edge work for the time.
[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovan_Battista_Bellaso