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by davidw 925 days ago
> 1650 - 1797 The unstoppable decline

The decline of Venice as an independent state for sure - did he talk about where things went with cryptography after that?

Quite interesting though... I would read a book about that. I lived in Padova for many years, which was the premier university of the Republic of Venice, so I wonder about what local connections there were there.

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Here's the 2023 paper - https://ecp.ep.liu.se/index.php/histocrypt/article/view/691/...

And the 2022 paper on cryptanalysis, the other side of the coin - https://ecp.ep.liu.se/index.php/histocrypt/article/view/389/...

Paolo clearly loves spending time in the Venice archives!