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Mysterious Voynich manuscript may be a cipher, a new study suggests

A unique cipher that uses playing cards and dice to turn languages into glyphs produces text eerily similar to the glyphs in ...
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Laying the foundation for modern encryption methods: Al-Kindi and frequency analysis

Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Ishaq as-Sabbah al-Kindi was a man of many disciplines, born in Kufa, Iraq around 801 AD. He was raised in Basra and educated in Baghdad. There his scholarship brought him to the ...