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Vezi oferta la libris.ron*Includes pictures n *Includes contemporary accounts describing the manuscript and attempts to decipher it n *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading n Yet it may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve. - Edgar Allan Poe, excerpt from A Few Words On Secret Writing, 1841 n For as long as language and communication have existed, humans have been inventing ways to mask their messages from prying eyes. Military and diplomatic officials often devise secret codes to transmit sensitive data and confidential information to approved parties. This practice has become so commonplace in recent years that entire sciences, hobbies, and fully fledged professions have been established to decipher these cryptic texts, called cryptographers. n Needless to say, these revolutionary methods of cryptography, though historic, are now considered archaic. Their simplistic secrets have been disclosed to the general public, and even incorporated into children's toys geared towards aspiring spies. n With the bulk of modern civilization so dependent on the virtual world, secret codes have evolved to a whole new level, most notably through data encryption. Data encryption, which aims to conceal classified electronic information through the use of complex ciphers and algorithms, was initially used for governmental and military purposes, but it now acts as the primary medium of security that most online platforms (as of
