Cryptomenytices Et Cryptographiae Libri Ix In Quibus Et Planissima Stenographiae A Johanne

by Gustavus Selenus Duke Of Braunschweig Luneburg Wolfenbuttel August Johannes Trithemius Abbot

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First edition

Lüneberg: Johann & Heinrich Stern, 1624. First edition, rare, of this encyclopaedic account of the science of cryptography as it was then practiced. It presents a comprehensive survey of encryption and code-breaking methods, including examples of substitution ciphers, musical ciphers, steganography the embedding of secret messages in a larger text , graphical encryption in images, and other techniques, with

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