by John on (#5NHAS)
Old cryptography never dies. After a method is broken, its use declines, but never goes to zero. And when I say “broken,” I do not mean no longer recommended, but broken to the point of being trivial to decrypt. I recently ran across an anecdote from World War I showing this is nothing new. The […]The post Using cryptography broken 50 years ago first appeared on John D. Cook.