The Romans didn’t have cybersecurity teams, but they’d already figured out that readable messages could be a problem.

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 ...

April 12, 2012 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google In general, you want to avoid writing down sensitive information and just keeping it in your head but that's not ...

1. Introduction -- 2. From Julius Caesar to simple substitution -- 3. Polyalphabetic systems -- 4. Jigsaw ciphers -- 5. Two-letter ciphers -- 6. Codes -- 7. Ciphers for spies -- 8. Producing random ...

Kevin Sands, author of The Blackthorn Key, picks his favourite keys, codes and ciphers throughout history, from the Caesar shift to the Enigma machine If knowledge is power, then the key to power lies ...