More Secret Codes: A History of Cryptography (Part 2)

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Part 2 of my series on historical cryptography.
Codes, ciphers, and mysterious plots. The history of cryptography, of hiding important messages, is as interesting as it is mysterious. I hope you enjoy!
Sources:
This video is primarily based on The Code Book by Simon Singh.
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:13 The Vigenere Cipher
03:39 Alternative Ciphers
05:35 The Breaking of the Vigenere Cipher
Music:
Lord of the Land by Kevin MacLeod
Link: incompetech.filmmusic.io/song...
License: filmmusic.io/standard-license
Allegro by Georg Philipp Telemann
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[@sharon2416]

this is actually really good! It's clear and interesting :D

[@omniomi]

These are wonderful videos. Only feedback if you do more would be that the examples would benefit from the use of a monospace font. When you lay the keyword over the plaintext the letters would directly line up with a monospace font as an example.

[@BrianZick]

Another great one, I'm loving this series!!

[@NOL_bm]

Very well-made! I would enjoy a third video because I am trying to create a difficult challenge. I had created the Vigenere cipher on my own without knowing it already existed. I assumed frequency analysis, which I learned years ago from looking at the ceasar cipher, would work if one brute-forced all the lengths, so I searched for better ciphers. This video revealed that the cipher was much easier to break than I thought. Although I'll probably make a decent cipher challenge soon, I would really like to see some more on the history of ciphers!

[@marjostorjaandobravolja5312]

I love channels like this one. Keep it up man,looking up to a 3rd part maybe? :D

[@neinzukorruption9321]

complicated, but well explained. I hope to see more of you in my timeline. thank you.

[@FaysalElAddouti]

You want to know a language that will give you depth whereby you'll be able to figure out hidden meanings? Classical Arabic. Arabic has diacritics and dots, but in the past, they used to write Arabic without diacritics and dots. If you learn Arabic, then learn it first with dots and diacritics, but if you're done, then go to the next level by understanding Arabic without diacritics and dots. This way you will maximize your depth. Your contextual comprehension will become better. Why is this? For example; without dots, the Arabic B, T and TH look exactly the same. So if you read without dots, you'll have to figure out the context by digging. It's like a code language. A secret language. Lots of letters will resemble each other without dots in Arabic.

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[@zezous2608]

I understood that reference

[@nuglord2084]

Great work on this video. It’s my favorite video on cryptography.

[@miguelupload555]

Well done! This is an offering to the algorithm

[@joethebassplayer]

great channel!

[@briancartwright7]

Thank you for this

[@QuintonCraig]

Please consider doing more cryptography stuff

[@Stop-loss-BoSS]

Thank you

[@marcom6089]

I love the way you explain every topic. No matter the topic, whether it’s history, academics, culture, language, kingdoms…etc., you do it in such an unbiased way that it makes it easy to understand and appreciate the story behind it all. Thank you for such great content.

[@uniqcoda]

Awesome and well explained video. Thank you. I noticed something I think is a mistake. The example where you generated a cypher text using the WHITE keyword, the 4th cypher letter is X and not Y. So it is IVDXX... not IVDYX... Let me know if I'm mistaken.

[@adityanpanchal6976]

I need the al-kindi, babbage and vigenere written books, but i can't find the pdfs! Could you help me?

[@kevinberg84]

How do you only have 21k subs?

[@samueljackson6188]

Vingere cipher doesn’t need the chart if you know the formula. Just have to understand mods.

[@krakendakon]

I am listening to this and realising how uninteligent i am, Thanks for the great video.

[@professorsogol5824]

For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo

[@primenumberbuster404]

Where is part 3?😢

[@stella.r2708]

Take a crack at the Voynich Manuscript and see how far you get before you tear your hair out.

[@dafa6365]

But why? Why would Babbage discovered the method then refusing to publish it

[@teejasenthilkumar2632]

Bro where did Alan Turing go?

[@GAHO.]

Cover the mechanical and digital cryptography stage if not we'll report your channel