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The Evolution of Encryption

1465 CE

A Polyalphabetic Cipher

Around this year Leon Battista Alberti invented the first published polyalphabetic cipher. He used a sheet that switched each letter of the alphabet, and a decipher disk made up of rotating rings to recover the message.

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