] 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 ... Cipher Device: CSP-488 |