A Latter-day Saint Cipher
Samuel Richard's 1858 proposal
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In a letter dated 9 August 1858, Samuel W. Richards wrote to Brigham Young to introduce a method for obfuscating written communications to prevent others from intercepting sensitive information. The cipher, which had been developed by William Budge, broke the Latin alphabet into a grid of nine squares with three letters in each segment (with the f…
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