Scytale, a greek cryptography system implemented in C++
August 27, 2009
During TISafe‘s Security Officer training this month, while talking about cryptography, the Scytale technique came up.
This was one of the first cryptography method with historical registry, used by the Greeks (Spartans, more specifically) to cypher messages during military campaigns thus not letting the enemy know their moves even if the message carrier gets caught, tortured or killed.
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