Habsburg emperor Rudolf II owned a spirit-summoning alchemical hand bell. We want to decipher its cryptic Greek inscriptions.
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The secret recipe came from Arthur Dee, 17th-century alchemist and royal physician to the Tsar.
The AN0M app was programmed by law enforcement to allow ‘back-door’ access. This led to the retrieval of information that culminated in hundreds of search warrants.
Researchers tried several times to have the document declassified, including in 1992, 2004 and 2016. It was initially written to help American NSA agents crack difficult coded messages.
A recent leakware attack targeting Johannesburg was the second of its kind ever recorded. Hackers demanded A$52,663 worth of bitcoins, in return for not releasing senstivie civilian information.
Computer capabilities have boosted our decryption technology to great heights. How will the future compare to a past, one in which codes were thought to be a means of communicating after death?
Movies tell us that paying a ransom means the bad guys win, but in the real world it’s not that simple.
There will be a quantum leap in securing online confidentiality with key distribution technology.
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Richard Bean is a Friend of The Conversation.Research Fellow, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland
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PostDoc in Digital Humanities at Centre of Information Modelling (University of Graz), University of Graz
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Senior Lecturer (Business Information Systems), The University of Queensland
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Lawyer, Curtin University
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Assistant Professor at College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity, University at Albany, State University of New York
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Allington Postdoctoral Fellow, Science History Institute, Georgia State University
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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