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March 2010
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Vernam cipher

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In the first of two articles, Artur Ekert takes a tour through the history of codes and the prospects for truly unbreakable quantum cryptography.

Tags: Caesar shift cipher : substitution cipher : Enigma : Bletchley Park : scytale : frequency analysis : polyalphabetic cipher : one-time pad : Vernam cipher