Giovanni Soro [SEP] date of death
Giovanni Soro
Giovanni Soro (Venice, ? - 1544) was an Italian professional code-cracker. He was the Renaissance's first outstanding cryptanalyst and the Western world's first great cryptanalyst. Soro is known as the father of modern cryptography.
Career.
Soro was employed in Venice in 1506 by the Council of Ten as cipher breaker-in-chief. They were the first secret service specializing in codebreaking. Soro ran the cryptanalysis operation in secret as the cipher secretary. Soro's tasks included deciphering secret messages
July 1754)
- Stefano di Leoni (16 Sep 1754 - death May 1776)
- Giovanni Domenico Straticò, O.P. (15 July 1776 - 20 Sep 1784), next Bishop of Hvar (Croatia) (1784.09.20 – death 1799)
- Antonio Giovanni Giuseppe Lucovich (20 Sep 1784 - death 2 Dec 1794)
- Teodoro Lauretano Balbi (1 June 1795 - death 23 May 1831).
Titular see.
In 1969 the see was nominally restored but demoted as Latin Titular bishopric of Novigrad.