Alberti cipher disk

GPTKB entity

Statements (18)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf cipher device
gptkbp:category cryptography
Renaissance inventions
gptkbp:component two concentric disks
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Alberti cipher disk
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Vigenère_cipher
gptkbp:innerDisk lowercase alphabet and numbers
gptkbp:introducedIn 1467
gptkbp:inventedBy gptkb:Leon_Battista_Alberti
gptkbp:material brass
gptkbp:origin gptkb:Museo_Galileo,_Florence
gptkbp:outerDisk uppercase alphabet
gptkbp:significance first polyalphabetic cipher device
gptkbp:typeOfCipher polyalphabetic cipher
gptkbp:usedFor encryption
decryption
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:M-94_cipher_device
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7