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Manuscript written by Giovan Battista della Porta in the 1500s. | |||
In it, it describes the use of a deck of card to encode secret information by writing on the sides of the deck in a known order, then shuffling the cards to destroy the order and render the message illegible to anyone not familiar with the stack. The plot of [[Unshuffled]] later contained this idea. | In it, it describes the use of a deck of card to encode secret information by writing on the sides of the deck in a known order, then shuffling the cards to destroy the order and render the message illegible to anyone not familiar with the stack. The plot of [[Unshuffled]] later contained this idea. | ||
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| De Furtivis Literarum Notis | |
| Author | Giovan Battista della Porta |
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| Publication Date | 1563 |
| Language | Latin |
Manuscript written by Giovan Battista della Porta in the 1500s.
In it, it describes the use of a deck of card to encode secret information by writing on the sides of the deck in a known order, then shuffling the cards to destroy the order and render the message illegible to anyone not familiar with the stack. The plot of Unshuffled later contained this idea.