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Cryptography fun facts: 1. πŸ” The word "cryptography" comes from the Greek words "kryptos" (hidden) and "graphein" (to write), literally meaning "hidden writing."
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2. 🏺 Ancient Egyptians used simple substitution ciphers to encode their messages over 4,000 years ago, making cryptography one of the oldest sciences. 3. πŸ’Œ Julius Caesar developed one of the earliest known encryption techniques, now called the Caesar Cipher, shifting each letter three places in the alphabet.
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4. πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ During World War II, the German Enigma machine was considered unbreakable until Allied codebreakers, including Alan Turing, cracked its code, significantly impacting the war’s outcome.
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5. 🧩 The Enigma machine's encryption was so complex that it had 150,738,274,937,250 possible settings, making it a formidable challenge for cryptanalysts.
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