Academics Crack 15th-Century Diplomatic Cipher

Meet Pedro de Ayala, a 15th-century diplomat who took infosec to new heights by encrypting sensitive royal gossip with clever symbols - only to have his secrets cracked 500 years later by some codebreaking academics. His creative encryption method, which combined symbol substitutions with deliberate omissions, kept his messages safe…

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