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Publishing results is a major goal of active researchers in most sciences. Not so in cryptography: some of the top work remains secret, at least for a while. We now describe some of the contributors to cryptography BDH (before Diffie & Hellman). Others have played a role in this text before, among them Caesar, Augustus, Vigenère, Alberti, Porta, Vernam, Shannon, Kasiski, Babbage, Friedman, Viete, Bacon, and Cardano, in order of appearance.
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von zur Gathen, J. (2015). Chapter G Some cryptographers. In: CryptoSchool. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48425-8_18
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