The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

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This outline will lead you through a portion of these pivotal occasions, straight up to the twentieth century, at the time codebreakers changed the course of World War II. You’ll get some answers concerning the expanding refinement of cryptography and become acquainted with how both cryptography and code-breaking are improved by data innovation.

Thus, in the race between decoders and creative code writers, not only the reputation of the technicians but often also the history of the world as we know it was at stake. An earlier, later, or even non-occurrence of an encryption or decryption technique would almost certainly have led to another current geopolitical map, unleashing close to any possible uchronic alternative timeline. Wheatstone Bridge-খ্যাত) এরকম Cryptanalys এ সুপারদর্শী ছিলেন।তাদের এক মজার ঘটনা না উল্লেখ করলেই নয়। ভিক্টোরিয়ান ইংল্যান্ডে প্রেমিক-প্রেমিকার অবাধ ভালোবাসার আদান প্রদানটাকে ঠিক সহজভাবে নে��়া হতোনা।পরিবারের কেউ যেন না জানতে পারে,তাই পত্রিকার ব্যক্তিগত কলামে Encryption এর মাধ্যমে প্রেমপত্রের আদান-প্রদান হবার ট্রেন্ড চালু হয়েছিল তখন! The Gold Bug এ এরকম পদ্ধতিতে গুপ্তধন বের করার কথা পড়েছিলাম,যদিও তখন কিছু বুঝিনি।ঐ অধ্যায়টা পড়ার পর পুরোনো প্রশ্নের উত্তর পেয়ে চমৎকৃত হয়েছি! In the sixteenth century, another cipher rose, one that was inaccurately accepted to be unbreakable. The methods used are described in detail, which is sometimes too advanced for beginners, and because of this, it´s sometimes advisable to skim the purely theoretical descriptions as in my case (laziness and layman). The military historical and political aspects are anyway much more interesting for the philistines of applied science.Rather, it’s about an awesome crash course in the history of encryption from the Middle Ages or earlier, say Roman or Greek, all the way forward to mechanical solutions a-la Babbage and right into the thrilling good stuff of WW2, including Turing and the awesome Code Talkers.

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Coming on 20 years after the book was written, it’s still quite awesome despite all our subsequent advances in cryptography. The Islamic scholars, while analyzing the Koran, discovered that the frequency of letters was not the same. In English, for example, the letter 'e' appears much more frequently than 'z' By analysis of letter frequency and knowing the language of the cipher, deciphering became quite simple. Blaise de Vigeniere solved this weakness by inventing the Vigeniere square, which provided multiple cipher alphabets using keywords to link letters with particular alphabets, a polyalphabetic cipher. The beauty of his scheme was that the letter “e” might be represented by several other letters, so frequency became irrelevant C or so everyone thought. To decipher the code, all one needed was the keyword, easy to remember, and not necessary to write down anywhere. Deciphering was a tedious process, however, and his impregnable ciphering system was not widely used. The Great Cipher was created by a father and son team working for Louis XIV. Their system was to use a combination of various types of ciphers. Unfortunately, they died without recording how their cipher worked, and many documents in French archives remained completely unreadable until the late 19th century when a French cryptanalyst spent several years painstakingly applying his knowledge of ciphers to the problem. Several of the documents thus finally deciphered revealed the identity of the Man in the Iron Mask. When I was preparing the Challenge, I sometimes wondered if it was worth it. Would anybody be interested in such a challenge? However, the reaction from readers has been incredibly gratifying, and I have been staggered by your enthusiasm, dedication, persistence, ingenuity, good humour and brilliance. Singh has created an authoritative, and engrossing read which both explains and humanises the subject… This intelligent, exciting book takes its drive from a simple premise – that nothing is as exciting as a secret.

Code maker-রা বর্ণ প্রতিস্থাপন এর পরিবর্তে Randomly বর্ণ নির্ধারণ করলেন এবারে।অর্থাৎ প্রেরক ইচ্ছেমতো বর্ণ ধরবেন,যার এক কপি থাকবে প্রাপকের কাছে।এবারে সহজে মেসেজ বের করার পদ্ধতি আর চলছেনা।

Puzzle denoted another stage in the advancement of cryptography, yet the field didn’t end there. Next, we’ll investigate how current cryptography created, and where it’s going.