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 ...
The Romans didn’t have cybersecurity teams, but they’d already figured out that readable messages could be a problem.
“A man is crazy who writes a secret unless he conceals it from the crowd,” wrote 13th-century philosopher Roger Bacon. Since ancient times, politicians, military leaders and even lovers have used ...