Middle ages Quote by David Kahn

“the conviction in the minds of many people that cryptology is a black art, a form of occultism whose practitioner must, in William F.…

— David Kahn

“The Arabic knowledge of cryptography was fully set forth in the section on cryptology in the Subh al-a ‘sha, an enormous, 14-volume encyclopedia”

— David Kahn

“cryptology is black magic in itself springs ultimately from a superficial resemblance between cryptology and divination. Extracting an intelligible message from ciphertext seemed to…

— David Kahn

“The multiple human needs and desires that demand privacy among two or more people in the midst of social life must inevitably lead to…

— David Kahn

“All this stained cryptology so deeply with the dark hues of esoterism that some of them still persist, noticeably coloring the public image of…

— David Kahn

“Much of the history of cryptology of this time is a patchwork, a crazy quilt of unrelated items, sprouting, flourishing, withering. Only toward the…

— David Kahn

“Cryptology was born among the Arabs. They were the first to discover and write down the methods of cryptanalysis. The people that exploded out…

— David Kahn

“General Joseph O. Mauborgne, who became Chief Signal Officer in October, 1937. Mauborgne had long been interested in cryptology. In 1914, as a young…

— David Kahn

“making yourself understood to another person is essentially a problem of cryptology.”

— Jason Fagone

“Smart, rabidly paranoid people are the backbone of cryptology,”

— Neal Stephenson

“I want to rasp into sober cryptology and say something dynamic but tonight is my laundry night. How do we imagine a new life…

— Sherman Alexie

It is a maxim of cryptology that what one man can devise, another can unravel. This principle keeps armies of tax lawyers and accountants…

— Walter Wriston