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Venetian spymaster Giovanni Soro decrypted Vatican letters for the Council of Ten using frequency analysis
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Soro cracked rival ciphers with frequency analysis, but Venice’s own codes posed a different problem: an accurate translation could expose them. When the pope asked him to decipher Venetian messages, Soro sometimes supplied false readings, helping the codes keep their reputation for being unbreakable.
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