[b]Simon Singh
The NSA employs more mathematicians, buys more computer hardware, and intercepts more messages than any other organization in the world.[/b]
I know, let’s call it “national security”. Though, sure, “big brother” still works.
…like Turing and the cryptanalysts at Bletchley Park, the Navajo were ignored for decades. Eventually, in 1968, the Navajo code was declassified, and the following year the code talkers held their first reunion.
Hosted by Don Trump and Pocahantus.
…if a message protected by quantum cryptography were ever to be deciphered, it would mean that quantum theory is flawed…
How worried should we be then?
Similarly, if you’re trying to prove something mathematically, it’s possible that no proof exists.
Indeed, we get that all the time here.
A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.
Any youtube videos up yet?
Had the Arabs merely been familiar with the use of the mono-alphabetic substitution cipher, they would not warrant a significant mention in any history of cryptography. However, in addition to employing ciphers, the Arab scholars were also capable of destroying ciphers. They in fact invented cryptanalysis, the science of unscrambling a message without knowledge of the key. While the cryptographer develops new methods of secret writing, it is the cryptanalyst who struggles to find weaknesses in these methods in order to break into secret messages. Arabian cryptanalysts succeeded in finding a method for breaking the monoalphabetic substitution cipher, a cipher that had remained invulnerable for several centuries.
Let’s connect the dots here to ISIS. If, of course, it can be done.