Understanding The History Of Encryption
I know you have heard about encryption at one time or the other about the history of encryption. You have heard about security and e-mail hacking as well. In this article, I want to talk about all that you need to about the history of encryption. Follow me as we look at that together in this article.
Encryption communication is a very old concept. People have found the need to send private communication throughout the majority of human civilization. The need for privacy originally started from military and political needs, but has expanded beyond that.
Business need to keep data private to maintain a competitive edge. People want to keep certain information such as their medical record and financial records private.
Throughout human history, private communication means encrypting written communications. Over the past century, this has expanded to radio communication , telephone communication and computer/internet communications.
In the past several decades, the encryption of computerized transmissions has actually become ordinary. In fact, you can find computer/internet communications encrypted more often than phone and radio.
The digital environment makes implementing a particular type of encryption easier.
Whatever the nature of data you are encrypting or the mode; f transmitting data the basic concept is actually quite simple.
Messages must be changed in such a way that they cannot be read easily by any party that intercepts them but can be decoded easily by the intended recipient.
In this article, a few historical method of encryption, will be examined. Note that these are very old methods and they cannot be used for secure communication today.
An amateur could easily track the methods that will be discussed in my subsequent articles. However, they are wonderful examples for the concept of conveying the concept of encryption without having to incorporate a great deal of math which is required for the more complex encryption methods.