http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/codes Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Tue, 16 Jun 2026 02:44:14 -0400 Tue, 16 Jun 2026 02:44:14 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1698/a-brief-history-of-cryptography By Tony M. Damico - As early as 1900 B.C., Egyptian scribes used hieroglyphs in a non-standard fashion, presumably to hide the meaning from those who did not know the meaning (Whitman, 2005). The Greek’s idea was to wrap a tape around a stick, and then write the message on the wound tape. When the tape was unwound, the writing would be meaningless. The receiver of the message would of course have a stick of the same diameter and use it to decipher the message. The Roman method of cryptography was known as the Caesar Shift Cipher. It utilized the idea of shifting letters by an agreed upon number (three was a... Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:34 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1698/a-brief-history-of-cryptography