Cryptography
| Cryptography ('hidden writing') is the study and science of secret writing and communication, used in the war industry, freemasonry, magic and secret services. The term was coined by Edgar Allen Poe in The Gold Bug. Cryptic masonry is a branch of freemasonry with the death of Hiram Abiff as central concept. The frequency of letters are studied in frequency analysis to crack a cryptographic code. |  |
In 1000 bc the Chinese developed divination manuaI I Ching.
Monoalphabetic substitution cyphers (in which a key is needed to decipher the cypher alphabet into plain text) were used by the Greeks and in the Roman Empire (Julius Caesar) for military communication. Transposition cyphers rearrange the letters of the plain text fi in columns.
Arabic mathematician al-Kindi developed the algorhitm.
Ramon Llull published the Art of Logic on divination and computation.
In 1476 architect Leon Battista Alberti created a polyalphabetic cypher with a cypher wheel. He also played a role in creating the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili.
In 1518 Trithemeius' book Polygraphie was published.
Franciscan and alchemist (Mercury the messenger: communication) Roger Bacon, Geoffrey Chaucer and rosicrucian Francis Bacon (William Shakespeare) used cryptography in their writings. Bacon invented the bi-literal cypher with different fonts (steganography).
Cryptography was used in the war between Catholic Church (jesuits) vs the Protestant Church of England.
Francis Walsingham discovered the Babington plot of Mary Stuart. Mathematician and cryptographer John Wallis helped founding the Royal Society (dream of building the Temple of Solomon).
Johannes Trithemeius was the teacher of Paracelsus and HC Agrippa. He wrote medieval grimmoire Liber Juratus.
John Dee worked with William Cecil and spymaster Francis Walsingham. He studied the work of Johannes Trithemeius, used the heptagon as Seal of Truth, developed the Enochian system.
John Wilkins, founder of the Royal Society wrote Mercury or the Secret and Swift Messenger on cryptography.
Edgar Allan Poe wrote The Gold Bug. Cryptography was used in the American Civil War. Charles Babbage was a member of the Royal Society and Ghost Club and played a role in developing the first computer.
Benjamin Franklin hired Charles Dumas. Thomas Jefferson invented the Jefferson cypher wheel.
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (Aleister Crowley) used the Enochian system.
Modern cryptography is based on mathematical theory.
During WW1 MI6 created project Room 40.
The German Navy introduced Enigma (black box=Saturn symbol) in 1926, invented by Arthur Scherbius (Technical University of Munich of Ludwig II), with polyalphabetic cyphers to encrypt and decrypt and plugboard that allows 6 to 10 letters to be connected to each others (rotor machines with trillions of combinations) with keys changing every day. Polish mathematician Marian Rejewski used permutation theory to develop the Bomba.
In 1936 Alan Turing wrote On Computable Numbers. He worked for MI6 at Bletcheley Park. The Enigma code was supposedly broken in 1932.
In 1941 Ultra was developed with Stewart Menzies (Bohemian Club). In 1942 Enigma changed from 3 to 4 rotors.
Claude Shannon worked on cryptography at Bell Labs (AT&T).
In 1952 Robert Lovett (S&B) created the National Security Agency (NSA).
The Beatles album Sgt Pepper had a cover with Crowley and Edgar Allan Poe and cryptic clue's.
In program Hip Hop rap improvisation in circle is called cypher. Ted Kaczynski used cryptography in his diary.
Algorithms are used by Youtube, Spotify,.. (part of the AI agenda).
Benedict Cumberbatch played Turing deciphering the Enigma as war hero in The Imitation Game.
Cryptography is used in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (hexagon grid, symbol of hive mind). Hacking collective Anonymous is used as controlled opposition.
Books on cryptography
History of Cryptography and Cryptanalysis, Codes, Cyphers and Their Algorithms John Dooley