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History of cryptography and cryptanalysis. Questions that wish to ask about the history of cryptography should use this tag; if you're asking about historical ciphers you may also wish to use the classical-cipher tag.

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Notable Non-Western Cryptosystems that have been widely deployed?

I was recently watching Sneakers (which Len Adleman advised on their "cryptography" sub-plot), which included a line along the lines of: [Some hardware that ostensibly breaks American cryptography] d …
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Examples of Weak Cryptography being exploited in the wild by cybercriminals?

As a theorist, I often motivate the need for strong cryptography via simplistic methods, such as "If this did not exist, your online bank transactions would be vulnerable". This is of course true if " …
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