Spain cracks King Ferdinand's 500-year-old code
Any code more than 50 years old should be trivial to crack by modern cryptoanalysis right? Otherwise we wouldn't be told to only use the very best algos we have on hand. It must have just been a matter of taking the time to crack this particular code.<p>On a side note, (as long as they mention Rosetta Stone) does writing in another language count as a form of cryptography? If so, it should likewise be trivial to crack any remaining unknown ancient scripts.<p>But I'm probably being ignorant somewhere here.