FWIW, the history of cryptography backs up this basic assertion. One of my still-not-yet-published assertions is that cryptography is often better conceptualize

FWIW, the history of cryptography backs up this basic assertion. One of my still-not-yet-published assertions is that cryptography is often better conceptualized as a hermeneutic exploration of the natural world. But, not the physical world (as "typical" science is), instead the "ideal" world---the laboratory of the mind. Bacon, Wilkins, Leibniz and many other "fathers" of modern Western science were all excellent cryptographers.