Introduction to ciphers and substitution. Alice and Bob and Carl and Julius: terminology and Caesar Cipher ; The key to the matter: generalizing the Caesar Cipher ; Multiplicative ciphers ; Affine ...
NOVA scienceNOW's "Can Science Stop Crime" introduced you to Tadayoshi Kohno, a University of Washington computer scientist who's made it his mission to take over networked machines, identifying ...
The intriguing world of cryptography has its roots in non-standard hieroglyphics, which were discovered on the walls of an Egyptian tomb in 1900 BC. In India, around 400 BC, “substitution cipher” ...
Over on YouTube, [The Modern Rogue] created an interesting video showing a slide-rule-like encryption device called the Réglette. This was a hardware implementation of a Vigenère-like Cipher, ...
Sending secret messages to your friends is fun, but today it’s so simple that you don’t even notice it anymore: practically any serious messaging system features encryption of some sort. To teach his ...
Ever since writing has existed, people have wanted to send secret messages to one another--and others have wanted to intercept and read them. This is the third installment of the blog series taking ...