Welcome to part 5 of my series on cryptography! Today, the focus is going to be on codes and ciphers used during World War I. With a special focus on the most notable ciphers, as well as a particular code and the message it was used to encode. The latter — the Zimmermann Telegram — was a secret message whose interception had a dramatic effect on the dynamic of the war.
This post is part of my series Cryptography: Historical Intro & Combinatoric Analysis.
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Welcome to the first post from my new series. Here we’re going look at a famous probability question often called the birthday problem. This is actually a more general question related to the probability of at least one coincidence after a fixed number of draws from a discrete uniform distribution.
This post is part of my series Probability Questions from the Real World.
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Hi, everyone! And welcome to my post about the binomial distribution! Just like the Bernoulli distribution, this is one of the most commonly used and important discrete probability distributions.
This post is part of my series on discrete probability distributions.
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Welcome to part 4 of my series on cryptography! After taking an in-depth look into ciphers in the previous two posts, now it’s time to delve into the other big category of cryptographic methods. So, this week’s post is going to be about cryptographic codes.
This post is part of my series Cryptography: Historical Intro & Combinatoric Analysis.
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In this week’s post, I’m going to introduce you to the world of polyalphabetic substitution ciphers. And to the most famous cipher from this category: the Vigenère cipher.
This post is part of my series Cryptography: Historical Intro & Combinatoric Analysis.
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Today, I’m going to introduce two ciphers from the dawn of cryptography: the column cipher and the Caesar cipher. These ciphers illustrate some of the first human ideas in the direction of cryptographic thought.
This post is part of my series Cryptography: Historical Intro & Combinatoric Analysis.
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