Essay On Cipher

You have probably used ciphers when you were young with friends and did not even realize. Keeping secrets from people that wanted to know the secrets you had. Ciphers have been around for thousands of years. To cipher something is to hide the specific meaning of messages, but not the message existence. The need to hide messages has been with us ever since we moved out of caves way back then. Most of the earliest forms of ciphers we have records of have been mostly recovered from Egypt, Greece and Rome. There are several types of ciphers used in the world today in places such as a bank and even on computers. Ciphers are used to keep unwanted people or technology from seeing things you do not want others to see, such as personal information. Certain people can decipher these using a key or a serious of steps to bypass the cipher.

One of the oldest technical studies we can find records of is known as ciphers. There has been documented use of ciphers going back to Egypt 2000 B.C. Ciphers are also known as many other names such as the more commonly used word cryptography(cryp•tog•ra•phy), cryptography originates from the Greek words kryptos and graphein, meaning ‘hidden and writing, respectively’. Cipher are also none as encryption, or conceal. Ciphers is an ancient science art used to write in secret codes, some ancient ciphers are the hieroglyphics used to beautify the tombs of the rulers and kings that passed away. The hieroglyphics told the deceased life story. As time went by it became more difficult for people to decipher these hieroglyphics. These hieroglyphics would have probably not been deciphered until the computer age if the Rosetta Stone was not deciphered in the early nineteenth century.

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...ered messages of different nations. These cryptologists were known as the Black Chambers. Some of the most famous Black Chambers were the Austrain Geheime Kabinets-Kanzlei in Vienna, the French Cabinet Noir and later the British Room 40, infamous for their extraordinary aptitude in capturing and deciphering different sorts of military and political post.

Coming into the nineteen century, machines such as the Hebern rotor machine and The Engima machine were beginning to be built to create ciphers for military and other uses. The majority of the work on cryptography was for military purposes, typically used to conceal mystery military data. In any case, cryptography pulled in business consideration post-war, with organizations attempting to secure their information from rivals. Throughout and before World War II, the primary provisions of cryptography were military.