More on #Bacon’s biliteral cipher from 01605. #binary #cryptography #history
on 02025-05-20Article from 02011: “How to make anything signify anything” by William H. Sherman about William F. Friedman, WWI cryptographer who coined the term “cryptanalysis”. Shows Friedman’s lovely illustration of a cryptographic daisy, captioned, “An example of making anything signify anything by the biliteral cipher invented by Francis #Bacon,” using a 5-bit #binary code. #cryptography #history
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