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| | Learn more about Cryptography in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Although cryptography has a long and complex history, it wasn't until the 19th century that it developed anything more than ad hoc approaches to either cryptanalysis (eg, Charles Babbage's Crimean War era work on mathematical cryptanalysis of polyalphabetic cyphers, repeated publicly rather later by the Prussian Kasiski) or encryption. |
 | | Cryptography, cryptanalysis, and secret agent betrayal featured in the Babington plot during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I which led to the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots. |
 | | Cryptography, and its misuse, was involved in the plotting which led to the execution of Mata Hari and even more reprehensibly in the travesty which led to Dreyfus' conviction and imprisonment, both in the early 20th century. |
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