How Does Historical Cryptology Work?

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Il y a quelques mois au moment de la sortie de cet épisode, une actualité historique a fait grand bruit : un ensemble de lettres codées écrites par la reine d’Écosse Marie Stuart et conservées à la BNF ont été décryptées ! À cette ...

Aside from working on a competition for standardizing post-quantum primitives, the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, has also organized a lightweight cryptography competition meant to attract designs for symmetric primitives, such as hash func ...  Show more

What was the Enigma machine? What is a cipher? How did the Enigma machine work? Join Chris and Jonathan to learn more about cryptography. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

In this special episode co-hosted by TechStuff's Jonathan Strickland, the focus is on the codes, cipher machines, and cryptologists of World War II. Tune in to learn more about the Enigma Machine, Alan Turing, Code Talkers and more.