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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Security Boulevard

Inventors of Quantum Cryptography Win Turing Award

Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard have won the 2026 Turing Award for inventing quantum cryptography. I am incredibly pleased to see them get this recognition. I have always thought the technology to ...
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 ...