Kent Pitman · @kentpitman
329 followers · 224 posts · Server climatejustice.social

Just finished listening to audiobook of The Woman Who Smashed Codes. It's an excellent, historically true story about the life and MANY important achievements of Elizabeth Smith Friedman, who broke codes and defeated enemy spies in World War I and World War II. It's an engaging listen and a fascinating window into the early cryptographic world.

It's also yet another of those bits of history that was almost lost because, sigh, it was about a woman. And because Hoover and the FBI took credit for some critical things she her husband did at the Coast Guard. It's really heartening to see these stories being brought out. The research work that is apparent in the telling is really awesome.

audible.com/pd/The-Woman-Who-S






#history #HERstory #stem #cryptology #encryption #ciphers #nsa #fbi #cia #coastguard #turing #enigma #bletchleypark #hitler #nazi #spies #Smuggling #audiobook #book #goodreads #GoodListens

Last updated 2 years ago

Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
689 followers · 599 posts · Server mastodon.scot

For anyone who wants to know more details about the newly deciphered Mary Queen of Scots letters here is the full peer reviewed journal paper. Freely online, open access, for all to read. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10

#letterwriting #ciphers #scotland #history #europeanhistory #sixteenthcentury #16thcentury #ScottishHistory #maryqos #maryqueenofscots

Last updated 2 years ago

Carl Karas · @ckaras
260 followers · 4204 posts · Server mastodon.world

My 1st YouTube. As it turned out, the 340 cipher had a longer solution back 2 years ago. Mine was the 1st legit solution. Yes it is possible for a cipher to have 2 solutions, just don't ask me how. This one contains more Zodiac info. Music by my late wife, French American post-minimalist downtown NY composer Elodie Lauten
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv8Ug5Xt

#cryptography #ciphers #crime #truecrime #fbi #histodon #sixties #newmusic

Last updated 2 years ago

The Black Chamber · @TSOJ
3 followers · 14 posts · Server mathstodon.xyz
The Black Chamber · @TSOJ
1 followers · 3 posts · Server mathstodon.xyz

This is a test for copying links. It's for a review I recently wrote for a table top escape room game, The Stormy Flight, from Exit. Little in the way of ciphers in this one, just steganography. Still, not a bad game.
theblackchamber552383191.wordp

#ciphers #escaperoomgames

Last updated 2 years ago

The rarity of the letter 'e' is a sign that the knew their stuff.
Because 'e' is the most common letter (in old as in modern French), it is what would be looking for first.
And the fake symbols were simply put in to sow more confusion.
While most symbols represented letters or combinations of letters, others represented whole words - like a needle for English King Henry VIII.


bbc.com/news/world-europe-6375

#codemakers #codeBreakers #codes #ciphers

Last updated 2 years ago

· @contravariance
40 followers · 31 posts · Server mstdn.social

Hand , also known as pencil-and-paper ciphers or field ciphers by the military, are methods that are performed with nothing more than pencil and paper.

ciphermachinesandcryptology.co

#cryptography #Encryption #ciphers

Last updated 2 years ago

GitHub - jedisct1/openssl-family-bench: A quick benchmark of {Open,Libre,Boring}SSL by @jedisct1

github.com/jedisct1/openssl-fa

#openssl #libressl #boringssl #benchmark #ciphers

Last updated 2 years ago

The Lion of Comarre · @LionOfComarre
36 followers · 70 posts · Server oslo.town
FediFollows · @FediFollows
42443 followers · 2128 posts · Server mastodon.online

Colin the Mathmo is a maths enthusiast who gives talks on mathematics and related topics. You can follow at:

➑️ @ColinTheMathmo

Colin's website is at solipsys.co.uk

He's also the admin of the maths-themed Mastodon server mathstodon.xyz

#juggling #academic #education #patterns #optimisation #ciphers #infinity #graphTheory #geometry #science #math #maths #mathematics #ColinTheMathmo

Last updated 3 years ago

favourite sites for you don't recognize?

#decryption #ciphers

Last updated 6 years ago

I'm excited to read Al Sweigart's _Cracking Codes With Python_. After a friend wrote me a script to convert binary to integers (w/ my own tweaks for characters) to speed my solving of , I'm eager to use Python for Affine, Vigenere, Nihilist ciphers and codes.

#python #geocache #ciphers

Last updated 6 years ago