world war 2

The so-called book cipher has always been in favor with authors of spy novels and detective stories, who usually try to mimic reality but are not ready to feed hardcore

Everyone has heard of the German cipher machine called Enigma, mostly due to the fact its story fascinates all kinds of writers and filmmakers – most recently in the Oscar-nominated

World War II revolutionized many technologies, including those that shaped the modern InfoSec industry. Back then, methods and machines utilizing modern cryptography principles were often coupled with ‘amateur’ ciphering methods.