A Ribbon, A Cipher Message and a Cylinder — Scytale
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3 min readJan 16, 2020
I love ciphers, and the Scytale cipher is one of the oldest around. In ancient times, ciphers were often used in love and war, and where two people could pass a secret message without others knowing its contents. Mary Queen of Scots, for example, used a number of ciphers to communicate with her trusted entities:
