Comments on: Appyhay Anniversaryway Yptographycray https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/24/appyhay-anniversaryway-yptogra/ Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:16:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: MadScientist https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/24/appyhay-anniversaryway-yptogra/#comment-546469 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:16:01 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/24/appyhay-anniversaryway-yptogra/#comment-546469 Yeah, I was confused by the 60 years as well; aside from the well-known Roman substitution ciphers which are trivial to break, a tougher-to-break cipher was in common use in France and England around the time of Elizabeth 1 (now trivial to break with a computer). I’m not sure about calling Enigma a computer though, unless you class the abacus as a computer; then again the computers which help read Enigma messages are older than 60 years (and Enigma even older); otherwise they would have had no value whatsoever during the war.

]]> By: Dan J https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/24/appyhay-anniversaryway-yptogra/#comment-546468 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:17:30 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/24/appyhay-anniversaryway-yptogra/#comment-546468 60 years?!!?!? I was very confused (can you say Caesar cipher) until I saw on the slideshow page (emphasis mine):

2009 marks 60 years of computer cryptography&hellip’

Now the 60 year thing makes more sense.

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