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It is not trivial to crack unknown ancient scripts. One of the poster children of this is Linear A (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_A https://en.wikipedia.
by icegreentea2 9y ago
It is not trivial to crack unknown ancient scripts. One of the poster children of this is Linear A (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_A), a script encoded with the same characters as the "cracked" Linear B, but we have no idea what Linear A actually contains.
Modern cryptoanalysis still requires large corpus' of data to work through.
For an example of the work it takes to break classical cipher methods, consider the Kryptos sculpture (its a sculpture at the CIA headquarters with 4 enciphered texts on it).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptos
It was unveiled in 1990. The forth puzzle is still unsolved.
- orblivion 9y ago> Modern cryptoanalysis still requires large corpus' of data to work through. I think this is the key I was missing. Like, it's a catastrophe if something is degraded to RC4, but we can't break something from 500 years ago. But I guess for modern communications you automatically get a very large corpus if you just wait for a little bit.