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How Caesar Hid His Messages in Plain Sight

Two thousand years ago, Julius Caesar assumed his letters would be caught - so he wrote them in a way that made reading them useless. The 2,000-year-old trick behind the Caesar cipher, and the Baghdad scholar who finally broke it.

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