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September 2008
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Caesar shift cipher

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Today's digital world with its free flow of information, would not exist without cryptography to guarantee our privacy. Plus meets mathematician, author and broadcaster Simon Singh to find out about the science of secrecy.

Tags: cryptography : RSA : Caesar shift cipher : key distribution problem : DES : Steganography


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In the first of two articles, Artur Ekert takes a tour through the history of codes and the prospects for truly unbreakable quantum cryptography.

Tags: Caesar shift cipher : substitution cipher : Enigma : Bletchley Park : scytale : frequency analysis : polyalphabetic cipher : one-time pad : Vernam cipher