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3000 BCE
Earliest hieroglyphics
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1400 BCE
Production of the Linear B tablet
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480 BCE
Greece vs. Persia
Greece saved from Persian attack thanks to code writing -
400 BCE
Scytale
Spartans first use the Scytale, an instrument used to hide messages through the method of transposition -
196 BCE
Inscription of the Rosetta Stone
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100
Invisible Ink
Evidence of the earliest use of invisible ink, a form of steganography -
750
Arab Cryptanalysts develop cryptography
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1400
Cryptography boom in Europe
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1506
Giovanni Soro
is appointed as the cipher secretary of Venice -
Traicté des Chiffres
Published by Vigenère -
Hanging of Mary Queen of Scots
Mary Queen of Scots hung after her letters of conspiracy were decrypted -
Industrialization of cryptanalysis
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Rosetta Stone rediscovered
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Morse Code
Development and establishment of a European form of Morse Code in Europe -
Development of radio communication
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Wartime ciphers
British interception and decipherment of a secret German coded message -
Enigma Machine
An unbreakable cipher is developed by using keys that lacked structure -
Wiretaps used to retrieve information
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Mass production of the Enigma machine
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Death of Christopher Morcom
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Microdot
The first microdot, a shrunken down message less than 1 mm large hidden in a letter and a form of steganography, is discovered by the FBI -
Enigma machine broken
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Death of Sir Arthur
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Wartime ciphers
Americans decipher Japanese ciphered messages of war plans -
Birth of Whitfield Diffie
Whitfield Diffie, a cryptographer who is known for his work on public key cryptography, is born -
Death of Alice Kober
Alice Kober was a woman cryptanalyst who studied the Linear B tablet -
Decipherment of Linear B tablet
The Linear B tablet is 3000 years old -
Military Communication
US begins researching long distance military communication -
Quantum Cryptography
The idea of quantum cryptography is developed by Stephen Wiesner -
The invention of the internet
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Debate of Encryption in the Information Age
Does encryption have positive effects on the population? -
Pretty Good Privacy
Zimmerman sells PGP, an encryption program used for private data encryption and decryption
