Early Crypto Historical Events A snap shot over time
Agenda Short Intro on Crypto Start Video (2 hours) Lunch is provided End Video Discussion
Demaratus King of Sparta GO WEST Steganography (Hidden writing) Greece vs Persia 480 BC GO WEST Others: silk and wax, eggs and alum, etc.
Spartan Scytale (wood staff) 404 BC TRANSPOSITION CIPHER SEND THE MATERIAL NOW S E N D T H E M A T E R I A L N O W SEIEMANALDTNTEOHRW.
Substitution Cipher Karma-Sutra 4 AD “The art of understanding writing in cypher, and the writing of words in a peculiar way.” Alphabet: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Substitution: DEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZABC “ROME SWEET ROME” “URPH VZHHW URPH” CAESAR CIPHER (FIRST MILITARY USE OF SUBSTITUTION CIPHER)
The Vigenère Cipher codeword: MONTREALMONTREALMO plaintext: SENDTHEMATERIALNOW ciphertext: ESAWKLEXMHRKZELYAK M S 1523 to 1596.
Baddington Plot A life hung on a cipher Queen Elizabeth I Protestant Mary Queen of Scots Catholic
Walsingham Mary Queen of Scots Conspirators Code Breaker Thomas Phillipes Cipher Clear Text Evidence
Warning Do not rely on weak crypto February 8th, Executed
Enigma (1917) Museum Trip Automatically combines substitution and transposition
Crypto System a pair of data transformations: –one encrypts –the other decrypts Encrypt plain text Decrypt cipher text plain text key
Symmetric Key Crypto System same key is used for both transformations Encrypt plain text Decrypt ciphertext plain text Key=1 IBM HAL
Symmetric Algorithms Rijndael - AES RC6 Twofish Casear RC4 CAST DES Triple DES Rijndael
Video Please turn off cell-phones Dispose of all material