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cipher code cryptographic key decryption Data Encryption Standard public-key cryptography transposition cipher Morse Code substitution cipher product cipher data mining data compression data processing database misinformation and disinformation byte data structure information retrieval bit big data

Key People

Ronald L. Rivest

American computer scientist

Michael Oser Rabin

Israeli American mathematician

Adleman, Leonard M.

Leonard M. Adleman

American computer scientist

Adi Shamir

Israeli cryptographer

Quiz

A botanical illustration from the Voynich manuscript, a codex, scientific or magical text in an unidentified language, in cipher; end of the 15th or during the 16th century (?).

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