Timeline for A cipher proposed by Littlewood
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| May 3 at 12:34 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | Regarding the "legend that every cipher is breakable," I'm reminded of a comment that Sherlock Holmes made in "The Adventure of the Dancing Men": "What one man can invent another can discover." Certainly at the time Littlewood was writing, mankind's collective knowledge of cryptography was much more primitive than it is today, and the "legend" would have been more plausible. | |
| May 3 at 12:28 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | There's also the Cryptography Stack Exchange. | |
| May 3 at 8:22 | comment | added | preferred_anon | @JulesLamers That's interesting, I would have thought security.stackexchange.com for this example. | |
| May 1 at 23:45 | history | became hot network question | |||
| May 1 at 16:08 | vote | accept | an_ordinary_mathematician | ||
| May 1 at 16:01 | comment | added | Jules Lamers | In general, hsm.stackexchange.com might be a more appropriate venue for such questions | |
| May 1 at 15:53 | answer | added | Carlo Beenakker | timeline score: 25 | |
| May 1 at 15:44 | history | asked | an_ordinary_mathematician | CC BY-SA 4.0 |