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History of cryptography and cryptanalysis codes, ciphers, and their algorithms John F. Dooley

Introduction: A revolutionary cipher -- Cryptology before 1500: a bit of magic -- The black chambers: 1500-1776 -- Crypto goes to war: the American Revolution -- Crypto goes to war: the American Civil ...
Forbes

Cybersecurity Is Rooted In A History Of Conflict, Deception And Innovation

The history of cryptography, the art of writing and solving codes, dates back to ancient times when people used simple substitution ciphers to encrypt messages. Over the centuries, cryptography has ...
Wired

The New Math of Quantum Cryptography

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Where Cryptography Is Headed

Reports began surfacing in October that Chinese researchers used a quantum computer to crack military-grade AES 256-bit encryption. Those reports turned out to be wrong, but that did little to dampen ...
La Brújula Verde

The Lost Manuals of the Most Advanced Nazi Cipher Machine of World War II Are Found in Prague — A Machine Whose Operation No One Fully Understood

A team of researchers discovers in Czech archives the original documents of the ‘Schlüsselgerät 41’, a device so secret that even the Allies never fully understood how it worked until now. For decades ...
Quanta Magazine

Quantum Scientists Have Built a New Math of Cryptography

Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the security of modern encryption. Any clever trick for solving them ...