Thursday, October 11, 2012

World War 2 inspired cipher to secure your emails

World War 2 inspired cipher to secure your emails

Who would have thought of marrying knowledge from more than 60 years ago with modern communications – through the clever implementation of an unbreakable cipher from World War 2 into emails. The Vernam cipher was developed all the way back in 1917 by AT&T engineer Gilbert Vernam alongside U.S. Army Captain Joseph Mauborgne, where this cipher was used to protect relayed data in the second World War. Captain Mauborgne further strengthened the cipher through the implementation of genuinely random keys which will not repeat, and Singaporean company Rune Information Security Corp.

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