: The renaissance polymath Leon Battista Alberti is often thought of as one of the "father of cryptography" in the West. His text on cryptography, De componendis Cifils, was published in 1466. Hence 2011 will be the 550th anniversary. {The history of the text was written by the cryptography bibliographer of the Uni

: The renaissance polymath Leon Battista Alberti is often thought of as one of the "father of cryptography" in the West. His text on cryptography, De componendis Cifils, was published in 1466. Hence 2011 will be the 550th anniversary. {The history of the text was written by the cryptography bibliographer of the Uni