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Music lines and stores subject to availability ends 14th of february it's wednesday july 27th 22 i'm jackson bird today cryptographers have identified the first known secure global communication

system in the form of 19th century newspaper ads.

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entertainment. Here's some cool stuff for your ride home. Long before apps like Signal, if an everyday person wanted to send an encrypted message to someone, they had to get creative, especially back in the 19th century.

A group of explorers hit on a solution that at first sounds counterintuitive.

They published their messages as ads in a globally distributed

newspaper, but they published them in code, a code so strong that it has only begun to be

broken 170 years later. Cryptographers Alonka Dunnan and Klaus Schme and journalist AJ Jacobs presented their findings earlier this month at the Hope 2020 conference here in Queens.

Hope is the Hackers of Planet Earth Conference, which amazingly, in its long-anticipated pandemic-delayed return was this year titled A New Hope.

Anyways, the focus of these cryptographers' presentation was a series of 50 mysterious ads

that were printed in the British newspaper The Times between 1850 and 1855.

Attempts to decrypt the ads have occurred over the years. The Times itself republished

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