• Wadsworth's cipher, or Wheatstone's cipher, was a cipher invented by Decius Wadsworth, a Colonel in the United States Army Ordnance Corps. In 1817, he...
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  • 584–585 Decius Wadsworth (1768-1821), Colonel in the Ordnance Corps of the United States Army who, in 1817, created Wadsworth's cipher Filippo Decio (1454–1535)...
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    continuously improved upon and used until the end of World War II. Wadsworth's cipher system involved a set of two disks, one inside the other, where the...
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  • VIC cipher • VideoCrypt • Vigenère cipher • Vincent Rijmen • VINSON • Virtual private network • Visual cryptography • Voynich manuscript Wadsworth's cipher...
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    1815 (acting) 1803 1805 Decius Wadsworth  — Colonel; appointed 1st Chief of Ordnance in 1812; invented Wadsworth's cipher in 1817 2 1805 1812 Jonathan Williams...
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  • founder of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Decius Wadsworth (1768–1821) U.S. Army officer and cryptologist; developed a progressive cipher system Derek...
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    by a cipher. Such multiple encryption, or "superencryption" aims to make cryptanalysis more difficult. Another comparison between codes and ciphers is that...
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    Francis Bacon. He established a cryptologic research group to study alleged ciphers in Shakespeare's work. Known as Riverbank Laboratories, it was the first...
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  • for $60 and later sells to Rick Dale for $80; and a World War II M-209 cipher machine. 205 21 "Million Dali Baby" January 28, 2013 (2013-01-28) Items...
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    contain hidden ciphers. The study disproved all claims that the works contain ciphers, and was condensed and published as The Shakespearean Ciphers Examined...
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