discoveries in astronomy followed the same pattern as frequency analysis.
An interesting thought. Do you think that code-breakers are likely to have anything to teach scientists? I am having visions of taking code-breaking software, inputting scientific data, and unraveling the secrets of the universe.
Do you think that code-breakers are likely to have anything to teach scientists? I am having visions of taking code-breaking software, inputting scientific data, and unraveling the secrets of the universe.
So am I (albeit maybe in a more limited sense). I created this topic to find out if any crypto experts here noticed any of the parallels I did. Seeing as they are skeptical about the possibility that code-breakers have anything to teach scientists, I think I’ll have to develop this idea more before I can be more justified in believing they do or don’t.
In particular, I’ll want to make the mappings between the plaintext and ciphertext to their science analogs more explicit. Also, I’ll want to design ciphers based on physical laws and see how code-breakers would infer the cipher (both in cases scientists have solved and those they haven’t).
I first thought that this would require (the very difficult task of) basing a trapdoor one-way function on a physical law, but now I don’t think so, because I needn’t make it a public key algorithm—a pure private key cryptosystem (on the assumption Alice and Bob have securely shared the cipher and key) would work as well, as cryptanalysts can break many of these kinds of system. And those kinds (like the Caesar cipher) don’t involve a trapdoor one-way function.
An interesting thought. Do you think that code-breakers are likely to have anything to teach scientists? I am having visions of taking code-breaking software, inputting scientific data, and unraveling the secrets of the universe.
So am I (albeit maybe in a more limited sense). I created this topic to find out if any crypto experts here noticed any of the parallels I did. Seeing as they are skeptical about the possibility that code-breakers have anything to teach scientists, I think I’ll have to develop this idea more before I can be more justified in believing they do or don’t.
In particular, I’ll want to make the mappings between the plaintext and ciphertext to their science analogs more explicit. Also, I’ll want to design ciphers based on physical laws and see how code-breakers would infer the cipher (both in cases scientists have solved and those they haven’t).
I first thought that this would require (the very difficult task of) basing a trapdoor one-way function on a physical law, but now I don’t think so, because I needn’t make it a public key algorithm—a pure private key cryptosystem (on the assumption Alice and Bob have securely shared the cipher and key) would work as well, as cryptanalysts can break many of these kinds of system. And those kinds (like the Caesar cipher) don’t involve a trapdoor one-way function.