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The dancing plague of 1518 was a strange phenomenon that occurred in Strasbourg, which was then part of the Holy Roman Empire (now France). In the summer of 1518, a woman named Frau Troffea began dancing in the streets and continued for days without rest. Soon, more people joined her, and within a month, there were around 400 people dancing uncontrollably in the city.
The ability to relay messages secretly has been a challenge throughout history. How can one person communicate secretly, efficiently, and across any distance without the information being discovered by someone other than the recipient? From the Greek scytale and the Roman Caesar Cipher, the technology of cryptography remained relatively the same until the late 17th century, when events in Europe and America required an updated message transmission method.
