Encoding and decoding of messages, both in times of war and peace have been in existence since the time human beings began writing.And the story of codes and ciphers is the age old battle between code makers and code breakers. In this battle only the fittest can survive.This aspect have been extensively dealt with By Mr Simon Singh in his book "The Code Book". You may remember him,as recently his Pound 10,000 offer for cracking a secret code was solved by a group of Swedish Programmers using super computers and struggling over a year.
Now the story of Mary Queen of Scotts of the 16th century.The protestant nobles rose against her, compelling her to abdicate.Her presence in England gave rise to countless plots and after the Babington conspiracy in 1586, she was executed.Sir Fransis Walsingham secretary of state for Queen Elizabeth was very much involved in this episode.developing a complex system of espionage at home and abroad.Mary queen was let down by the double crossing of Gifford and found guilty of planning to assasinate the Queen Elizabeth.At the root of this was a improper usage of a cipher in their secret plan which was easily cracked by the Queen's advisors.In that year, a French mathematcian Viginere wrote about secret writing based on polyalphabetic encryption. A few decades later, the Cryptographers of Louis 15 invented 'Great Cipher' which could not be cracked for two centuries.
Later Charles Babbage a British mathematcian,Arthur Conan and Edgar Alan pursued the secret ciphers which revealed some treasure troves.With the invention of radio by Marcony in the 19th century created a drastic change.Anybody could break into a wireless communication and cryptographers had a new challenge.The famous Zimmermann telegram sent to the German Ambassador in Mexico, outling an encrypted proposal to draw the US into th war was cracked which altered the course of history.Then there is Holy Grail of cryptography known as the one time-pad.It relied on a random key, the same length of a message and was never repeated.At this point of time Germans invented 'Enigma' which became a formidable system of encryption.During world war 2, Germans pressed 30000 enigmas with ironclad security. However Alan Turing of Britain cracked the 'enigma' which helped in the Allied victory in war.
Then there are many other fascinating stories of ancient civilization's use of cryptography.Finally the author discusses the present digital revolution in encryption and decryption.With the exchange of digital information becoming an integral part of life, encryption has a leading role in protecting the confidentiality of Business transactions and privacy of citizens.Details of various techniques used in secret coding, digital signatures used to authenticate documents sent over cyberspace are all discussed. In the last chapter futuristic ideas on security coding which may guarantee absolute privacy are given.
In future, when quantum computers are released secure communication may be possible. Till then the present available softwares could be used.Have you upgraded the Internet Explorer to 128 bit security ? If not please do if you handle financial transactions over the net. Finally, are you curious about the Encrypted Puzzle put forward by Mr Simon Singh, please refer to his book.It is beyond small folks like me.
If interested in more of the book, log on to www.simonsingh.com
If interested in the solution to the 512 bit Encryption, checkup at http://codebook.org/codebook-solution.html.
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