PN24: Real-life Classical Ciphers

Elonka goes over real-world examples of classical ciphers, some solved, some unsolved. Attendees can see some of the great advances on ciphers ranging from the Zodiac Killer cipher, solved after 50 years of trying, to the ciphers of Mary, Queen of Scots, whose encrypted messages were lost for centuries in a corner of the French National Library, to other remarkable ciphers used for communication over the last 200 years. Elonka is a longtime PhreakNIC attendee, whose solution of the PhreakNIC 3.0 Code launched her public career in codebreaking. She is the author or co-author of four books on cryptography, the most recent of which just came out a few months ago: “Codebreaking (Expanded Edition)”.She currently lives in Washington DC with her cat, Crypto Kitty