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Voynich manuscript: New study says it may actually be a cipher

The Voynich manuscript has long been shorthand for the unsolved and the unknowable, a late medieval codex filled with looping ...
insider.si.edu

The mathematics of secrets : cryptography from Caesar ciphers to digital encryption / Joshua Holden

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 ...
PBS

Cryptography: The First Unbreakable Code

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 second installment of a blog series taking you ...
The Gazette

The Road Not Taken: Codes, cyphers and cryptography

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” ...
PBS

Cryptography: Encryptions Past

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 ...
Nature

Cryptographic Algorithms and Substitution Box Design

Cryptographic algorithms lie at the heart of modern information security, and substitution box (S‐box) design is a critical component in achieving robust encryption. S‐boxes provide the nonlinearity ...