The Science of Codes: An Intro to Cryptography

Were you fascinated by The Da Vinci Code? You might be interested in Cryptography! There are lots of different ways to encrypt a message, from early, simple ciphers to the famous Enigma machine. Michael Aranda takes you through a fun and cryptic episode of SciShow, all about codes! ---------- SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters -- we couldn't make SciShow without them! Shout out to Justin Ove, John Szymakowski, Fatima Iqbal, Justin Lentz, David Campos, and Chris Peters. ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow Or help support us by becoming our patron on Patreon:   / scishow   ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook:   / scishow   Twitter:   / scishow   Tumblr:   / scishow   Instagram:   / thescishow   Sources: http://www.simonsingh.net/The_Black_C... http://book.itep.ru/depository/crypto... http://www.cs.trincoll.edu/~crypto/hi... http://www.sans.org/reading-room/whit... http://ftp.stmarys-ca.edu/jsauerbe/m1... http://www.turing.org.uk/scrapbook/ww... http://enigma.louisedade.co.uk/howitw... http://www.codesandciphers.org.uk/eni... http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military... http://www.cs.miami.edu/~burt/learnin...