Secret Codes - Cryptography, Decipherment and the Imitation Game

Hidden messages, and how we uncover them. A quick look at cryptography, cryptanalysis and decipherment. The 2014 film, The Imitation Game, centers on Alan Turing and the cracking of the Enigma Machine. There’s a whole history of “figuring out” behind Turing’s discovery. Three secretive subjects come to mind. Cryptography finds ways of keeping your messages secret. Cryptanalysis reverse engineers those ways and finds out your secrets. Decipherment tries to read an unknown writing system. My next video will look at 9 scripts and codes that are still a mystery to this day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emX-DNtSXpI&index=2&list=UUMk_WSPy3EE16aK5HLzCJzw Are you interested in tales of decipherment, like the deciphering of Egyptian hieroglyphs? Leave a comment! Not a subscriber? Subscribe for more videos about language! Music: Cycles (audionautix.com) Creative Commons 3.0 photos used here: Enigma machine, Turing statue and pics of undeciphered scripts