Cryptology
Cryptology is the science of data that is static or in transit, and the using of a cipher to keep its true meaning hidden.
Cryptography is the study of techniques and principles of concealment of information by way of a cipher.
Cryptanalysis is the art of deciphering or forging encrypted information with out a key. Creating and breaking ciphers is common place in the area of research.
Cryptography has been around since the dawn of man. Ciphers have been employed in the highest echelons of society, as well as the most secret of occult societies, and fraternal brotherhoods. Ciphers historically have been used by military generals to get messages behind enemy lines or to relay information to future generations as seen in hieroglyphs. In a more modern era, today presently cipher have been used to encode information that is in transit or at rest in a storage device. Encryption is used to keep all of our data safe in the cyber world. There is a need for cybersecurity cryptologists, and will be a greater need as the cyberspace grows.
Caesar Cipher
This cipher was said to have been used in Julius Caesar's Private correspondents. The Caesar used this cipher to encode messages because his life was in danger, and that spies were in his court. In fact, he had constant assassination attempts from people whom he knew intimately. Caesar was known to use several ciphers in his communications.
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Base 64 Online Coder
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Scytale's
Accounts in 3rd Century BC, tell that this encryption device was used in military campaigns to relay messages. It was a baton with strips of leather with letters as to wrap around the baton to decode a message. The sender and receiver would both have keys to decrypt said message.
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Abu Yusuf Ya’qub ibn Ishaq Al-Kindi
Kufa Iraq 9th Century
Descendant of the royal Kindah Tribe, Al-Kindi was a Muslim scholar and Mathmatician, well educated and influenced by Socrates and Plato. Al-Kindi Godfather of cryptanalysis. He is the creator of the first method of code breaking. By virtue of study and personal enrichment he was a capstone figure in decryption for his time.
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