TheCodeBreakers
roots are clear. Those roots reach back through the eons to the first
protozoa struggling for life in the warm seas of the primordial earth. For
cryptography and cryptanalysis, though they are highly sophisticated
technologies, retain at their inmost cores, like chromosomes that
determine their heredity, the most primitive of functions.
Cryptography is protection. It is to that extension of modern man—
communications—what the carapace is to the turtle, ink to the squid,
camouflage to the chameleon. Cryptanalysis corresponds to the senses.
Like the ear of the bat, the chemical sensitivity of an amoeba, the eye of
an eagle, it collects information about the outside world. The objective is
self-preservation. This is the first law of life, as imperative for a body
politic as for an individual organism. And if biological evolution
demonstrates anything, it is that intelligence best secures that goal.
Knowledge is power
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