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Re:Reflections on Ten Years Past the Snowden Revelations on Saturday May 27, 2023 @04:54PM (#36098208)
TIL that the Arab polymath al-Kindi invented frequency analysis & wrote the first cryptanalysis book ‘Manuscript on Deciphering Cryptographic Messages’, in the 9th century.