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On Wednesday 07 November 2001 17:12, Morlock Elloi wrote:
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I see. The We Kill Others variety.
What is Islam's position on encryption, BTW ?
Several of the oldest cryptological (and cryptographic) texts were
written by Arab mathematicians. You should be able to find
references with Google.
Tiarnan
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Tiarnán Ó Corráin
'The Origins of Cryptology: The Arab contributions', by Ibrahim A Al-Kadi
Cryptologia, volume 16, no 2 (April 1992), pages 97-126.
A discussion of recently discovered Arab manuscripts.
http://www.networkcomputing.com/netdesign/1007part1comp.html
Ever since man started communicating with one another, there has been a need
to keep secrets. Cryptography is defined as the principles, means, and
methods for rendering information unintelligible, and for restoring the
encrypted information back into intelligible form. In other words,
cryptography is the science of writing in secret. Examples of cryptography
have been discovered in the writings of Egyptians over 4,000 years ago. The
ancient Greek, Chinese, and Roman civilizations used surprisingly advanced
cryptography techniques. The use of cryptography, and the analysis of
cryptography (cryptoanalysis), flourished in the Arab world during the Middle
Ages. While lovers and theologians have long made use of secret messages, the
overwhelming use of secret writing has historically been in diplomacy and the
military.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/11/07/reviews/991107.07ossermt.html
The first big breakthrough in decipherment was made in the ninth century by
the Arab philosopher al-Kindi in a treatise only recently rediscovered. For a
thousand years or more, a message coded in a random monoalphabetic cipher was
considered undecipherable unless one had the key to the code.
Remember, 'algorithm' and 'algebra' are Arabic in origin.
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Tiarnán Ó Corráin
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FogStorm
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Morlock Elloi
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Tiarnán Ó Corráin