cryptology...cryptography, making it the earliest treatise on the subject. Another Greek, Polybius ( c. 200–118 bc), devised a means of encoding letters into pairs of symbols by a device called the Polybius checkerboard, which is a true biliteral substitution and presages many elements of later cryptographic systems. Similar examples of primitive substitution or transposition ciphers abound in...
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