60 Years of Cryptography, 1949-2009

Dan Jones writes "2009 marks 60 years since the advent of modern cryptography. It was back in October 1949 when mathematician Claude Shannon published a paper on Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems. According to his employer at the time, Bell Labs, the work transformed cryptography from an art to a science and is generally considered the foundation of modern cryptography. Since then significant developments in secure communications have continued, particularly with the advent of the Internet and Web. CIO has a pictorial representation of the past six decades of research and development in encryption technology. Highlights include the design of the first quantum cryptography protocol by Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard in 1984, and the EFF's 'Deep Crack' DES code breaker of 1998."

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Another list

[owlstead]

Reasons why people are suckers for lists:
- they split an article up in several evenly sized pieces
- lists look like they contain serious information
- lists are easy to remember than loose information
- humans like to rate things

But:
- but if the list contains elements that are only loosely coupled
- or if the list is very incomplete
- or if the information in the article is wrong or made up
- or if the information in the list is made up of known facts

Then lists suck. The article is one of those lists. My lists have been constructed in a minute or so, so you may count them to the former or mod me informative. As long as you click on the minus sign in front of the summary.