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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 ...
Network World

FBI: How to be an expert at the black art of cryptography

Breaking written codes is seemingly a black art whose history dates back as long as people could write and wanted to keep secrets. In the age of supercomputers and all manner of advanced technologies ...
Nature

Cryptanalysis of Public Key Cryptosystems

Public key cryptosystems underpin secure digital communications by relying on mathematical problems believed to be intractable for unauthorised parties. Cryptanalysis seeks to challenge these ...
ExtremeTech

Researchers crack the world's toughest encryption by listening to the tiny sounds made by your computer's CPU

Security researchers have successfully broken one of the most secure encryption algorithms, 4096-bit RSA, by listening -- yes, with a microphone-- to a computer as it decrypts some encrypted data. The ...