

#CIPHER CODE CRACKED#
When It Was Cracked (if applicable): It varies depending on the source - between 19
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Breaking The Enigma Code Significantly Shortened World War 2 Source:(Adapted from) Anomie/Wikimedia Commons 5. It is encoded and decoded by producing a grid or set of grids to produce the subsequent symbols. It uses symbols to encode the letters within a message. The Pigpen cipher, as known as masonic or freemason cipher, is a geometric simple substitution cipher. When It Was Cracked (if applicable): Unknown Its First Appearance: Unknown - Perhaps before 1531 This method can also be used to hide files or other messages within other files or messages.Ĥ. The slave was then sent to Aristagoras and ordered to once again shave his head. He describes how Histiaeus sent a message to his vassal, Aristagoras, by shaving the head of his most trusted servant, "marking" the message onto his scalp, and then letting the slave's hair regrow. The earliest recorded use of this form of 'encryption' was described by Herodotus in his Histories. Steganography is a method of hiding messages 'in plain sight' by camouflaging it as something else. When It Was Cracked (if applicable): Unknown Steganography Hides Messages in Plain Sight Given its simplicity, it was easily decipherable by the enemy too.

The recipient would use a rod of the exact same dimensions to read the message. This method involved the use of a cylinder around which a parchment was wrapped and the message written onto it. It is a form of transposition cipher where letters are re-arranged in the messages prior to being deciphered by the recipient. Scytale was an ancient form of encryption commonly in ancient/classical Greece. When It Was Cracked (if applicable): Unknown - But known about by Plutarch (50-120AD) Where It Appeared: Classical/Ancient Greece/Sparta Its First Appearance: Ancient Greece - 7th Century BC Scytale Was A Simple Cipher Used By The Spartans
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By the 9th Century AD, after the fall of Rome, records exist of methods to crack it using frequency analysis from Al-Kindi. The cipher was named in honor of Julius Caesar who, according to Suetonius, used it to encrypt military and other official messages.Īs the majority of Rome's enemies were illiterate at this time the cipher remained secure for a time. When It Was Cracked (if applicable): Unknown - Likely between 5th and 9th Century AD

Its First Appearance: Unknown - Likely 1st Century AD The Caesar Shift Cipher Was Used By the Roman Army
