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CRYPTOGRAPHERS, CODEBREAKERS AND OCCULT PHILOSOPHERS


HISTORICAL (PRE- XVIIth Century):
- Johannes Trithemius (1462-1516): Steganographia
- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486-1535): De Occulta Philisiphia libri tres.
- Blaise de Vigenere (1523-1596): Traicté des chiffres (1586)
- Giambatista della Porta (1535-1615): Magia naturalis (1558), De furtivis literarumnotis (1563)
- Leon Alberti
- Paulo Pancatuccio - Papal cryptographer
- Antoine Rossignol (1600-1682) - arguably the most skillfull decipher in Europe
- John Dee (1527-1608)
- Simon Forman (1552-1611)


POST- XVIIth Century
- Charles Babbage (1791)
- Kasiski

PRE WWII

- Albert Myer (American Civil War)
- Auguste Kerckhoffs (19th-century)
- Arthur Scherbius (Enigma)


WWII and POST
- Marian Rejewski (1932)
- Bletchley Park: Alan Turing, W. Gordon Welchman
- Room 40: Nigel de Grey, Reverend Montgomery

Hieroglyphics and Ancient Scripts
- Thomas Young, Jean-Francois Champollion, Alice Kober, John Chadwick, Michael Ventris

PUBLIC-KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY, RSA, PGP:
- Stanford: Whitfield Diffie, Martin Hellman, Merkle
- MIT: Ronald Rivest, Adi Shamir, Leonard Aldeman
- GCHQ: James Ellis, Clifford Cocks, Malcolm Williamson,
- GCHQ (others):Richard Walton
- Phil Zimmermann (PGP)

ACOUSTIC CRYPTOANALYSTS:
- Daniel Genkin, Adi Shamir, Eran Tromer

Last update 3 June 2016