On a hiking trip, you find a piece of paper on the desk of an abandoned cabin: 
Also on this desk is an old-fashioned computer that is, unfortunately, password-protected. You are sure that if you can solve the riddle left behind on the piece of paper, you'll be able to get into the computer...
Happy riddling! (Hints will come soon if nobody can solve this...)
Hint 1:
You might want to try replacing "Leon Battista Alberti" with "Johannes Trithemius..."
Hint 2:
You could also replace Leon Battista Alberti with Giovan Battista Bellaso.
Hint 3:
The owner of the cabin made one careless mistake: the last three lines are in the order that they were used by him to create the message...
Hint 4: (this is a big hint!)
Look at the Wikipedia page that includes all the names from Hint 1, Hint 2, and the last line of the note.
Answer
From the PARTIAL ANSWER! and hints
Cipher order reversed as per the hint 3
1.
Wikipedia page for Tabula recta mentions all the names in the hints 1 and 2
Using Tabula recta with the keyword bythewaybythewaybythewaybythewaybythe gives
beo dulracaj az oq ofurq vl szsmrlnsqpxgrlc
2.
Ceasar cipher with 42 shift gives
loy nevbkmkt kj ya ypeba fv cjcwbvxcazhqbvm
3.
Enigma M3 with the given parameters and an empty plugboard gives
the password to my files is moonrockonearth
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