Friday, February 08, 2008

Cracking the Code

How do you keep a secret? One way is esczfrs ncjaezrclasj.* If you understood that, you already may know a little about cryptography.

For more than 3,000 years, people have encrypted messages to keep their communications secret. And encryption is still used today, though it’s much more sophisticated from the simple encryption from our past.

To make a successful cipher, you need a few things: an algorithm and a key to encrypt the information and an identical key and algorithm to decrypt the information. The key is known only by the message’s originator and recipient, and must be kept secret. read more

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