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De furtivis literarum notis

Giambattista della Porta, 1563.

Giambattista della Porta's 1563 treatise on secret writing, the first printed account of digraphic substitution and one of the earliest systematic books on ciphers.

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What it's used for here

The procedure-fingerprinting survey lists it among the cipher methods available in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

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della Porta, G. (1563). De furtivis literarum notis.
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