Cryptography - an introduction

Cryptography - an introduction Cryptography?!

I hope to give a brief over-view of cryptography in these pages, describing bith mathematical and historical aspects.
I was always fascinated by "secret codes", right from a young age, as the secrecy appealled to me.
I also liked practical forms of communication, such as Semaphore , and these were fun and fairly easy to perform.

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