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Polybius
March 18, 2026
15 min read

The Polybius Square and Its Descendants: From Ancient Greece to WWI Ciphers

Trace the Polybius square's 2,000-year lineage from ancient Greek torch signals through Vietnamese POW tap codes, Russian revolutionary Nihilist ciphers, Delastelle's Bifid cipher, and the ADFGVX cipher that shaped World War I.

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