Using cryptography broken 50 years ago

1 · John Cook · Aug. 19, 2021, 3:26 p.m.
Old cryptography never dies. After a method is broken, its use declines, but never goes to zero. And when I say “broken,” I do not mean no longer recommended, but broken to the point of being trivial to decrypt. I recently ran across an anecdote from World War I showing this is nothing new. The […] The post Using cryptography broken 50 years ago first appeared on John D. Cook....