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Cipher Device: CSP-488
by Elonka at 3:06 pm EST, Feb 19, 2004

] The revolving wheel cryptographic principle that
] underlies CSP-488 was invented by Leo Battista Alberti
] during the fifteenth century. Centuries later, Thomas
] Jefferson re-invented a "Wheel Cipher" that was
] practically identical in principle, then followed by
] Major Bazeries around 1901 and Colonel Parker Hitt in
] 1914. All independently conceived of a device employing
] the same principle.

I keep wondering if something like this is going to be the key to decrypting Kryptos ...


 
 
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