I'm sorry, this view feels pretty misguided. Without such historical background you are bound to repeat mistakes all over again. I can't even count how often I

I'm sorry, this view feels pretty misguided. Without such historical background you are bound to repeat mistakes all over again. I can't even count how often I meet somebody who wants to roll some "simple cipher" by xoring a periodically repeated "password" over a file, or at every position or so. Or writes a blog post about this and then has the deep insight that this is called "caesar cipher, you should look it up, it's fun" or some nonsense. Those are the seriously uneducated. Maybe coming from a high school student, sure. But not from an actual professional. With a university degree in this you should be better than that. You should be curious about the history of your field and learn the context. Everybody who is not signals to me that they actually just want to hack something without a deep understanding, and then move on.