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Is It Possible to Design an Unbreakable Cipher?

April 1, 2016
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Is it possible to design an unbreakable cipher? Do methods of encryption exist that guarantee privacy from even the most capable and highly-resourced…
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The Monographic Substitution Cipher: From Julius Caesar to the KGB

March 13, 2016
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A monographic substitution cipher works by replacing individual characters of plaintext with corresponding characters of ciphertext. It is perhaps the…
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