Unlocking the Secrets of Ancient Cryptography 🔐

CDB Scholar Achyuta Rajaram will be sharing a series of videos on a topic he's passionate about: Cryptography! Cryptography is a fundamental backbone of the entirety of communications, and without it, there would be colossal ramifications, as nothing less than a face-to-face conversation could be trusted. This incredibly important technology has such an impact on the world, yet we rarely hear much about it. This series will cover various algorithms used in cryptography to secure everything around us, and the techniques used to break them.

Before we can talk about modern cryptography, we should take a look at the tools of antiquity. This first video will take us from ancient Roman times to 1945, where the Enigma machine both defined WW2 and marked the advent of modern cryptographic algorithms and computers. In this video, we will discuss various ciphers, why they are insecure, and what impacts they have had on history.