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:Welcome to Contemporary Art. This Cryptography blog will be the place to talk about encryption in a visual form. Its going to be a place to show off your work and ideas, to get feedback on them, and also share information on how you create these images so that we can all learn from each other.
:Its going to be a great place for us all to grow together and push the boundaries of visual cryptography further and further into the future with new ideas and new ways of exchanging information in a fun way.:
There is a lot of information to be found on the internet, especially on social media networks. I do not think it has ever been easier to spread your ideas and thoughts to a large audience.
I want to take advantage of this and spread knowledge about encryption. What is encryption? Encryption is a way to protect data, and it can be used to make sure that only you can access your personal information, such as business documents or household accounts.
An important part of my work will be to present the subject in visual form. Do you have any other ideas for me? I would love to hear them!
*Name:Create an infographic
The contemporary art was created by a group of anonymous developers and designers, who call themselves the ZKZM (Zero-Knowledge of Zero-Knowledge proofs).
The project has a website at zkzm.io, which describes the basic principles of cryptography, as well as a visual guide to cryptography. The latter is divided into six sections:
1. Information Encoding
2. Encryption
3. Decryption
4. Authentication of Data
5. Authorization and Access Control
6. Denial of access to confidential information using Visual Cryptography
Alphabetum Verum or The True Letters is a book of secret codes and ciphers, published on March 12, 1624. It was supposedly written by Johannes Trithemius, a German abbot from the 15th century (thus just in time to be seen as some kind of wizard).
Trithemius’ book was so popular that it went through several editions and translations: Italian, French, Spanish and English. The books were sold to diplomats, merchants and other people who needed to send coded messages.
But these codes weren’t just used for secrecy: they were also used for decorative purposes. Take this sample from Alphabetum Verum :
The letters at the top of each column form an acrostic which spells out “THEY”, while the ones at the bottom spell “HAVE”. A bit further down, you can see again the word “THEY” spelled out with smaller letters between two larger letters that spell out “UNDERSTOOD”.
This code is one of the earliest known examples of steganography: hiding a message in plain sight. It’s easy to miss if you’re not looking carefully enough. And if you don’t know what you’re looking at, it’s impossible to see.
The use of cryptography in art was first put forward by conceptual artist stefan dziworski in 1998. In his lecture at Transmediale festival in Berlin, Dziworski commented on how the new opportunities offered by the internet were creating wealth for some and making life more difficult for others, especially those with a talent for copying.
It was clear that the second group would soon become obsolete and this would ultimately have a negative effect on culture and society as a whole.
He proposed that artists should take advantage of new forms of communication to create new forms of art which could not be copied and which would not be subject to commercial interests. The idea was to develop a form of visual encryption to protect cultural assets. He called this “CryptoArt”.
This could be achieved if artists used unique keys (encryption codes) or even unique identities given to them by third parties when signing their work. When an artwork was sold, the buyer would then have to contact the artist directly to find out how he or she should view it. This would make it impossible for galleries, collectors or other middlemen to sell the work on without permission from the artist.
The following is a guide to contemporary art.
The purpose of this guide is to demystify contemporary art and demonstrate that it is actually very easy to understand. It is constructed entirely out of basic shapes and colors, which are repeated to create a wide variety of different images. The images are arranged in the order that they were produced.
If you’ve ever felt intimidated by contemporary art, this guide will help you feel at home in the galleries.
Turing’s Bombe (1939) was an electromechanical device used to decrypt German Enigma-encrypted secret messages during World War II. Wikipedia
The Bombe was invented by Alan Turing at the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park, England. The machine was called “Bombe” because it hummed like a drum (as one who worked on it, Gordon Welchman, wrote); and eventually the name became applied to the whole of the cryptanalytic operation against Enigma. The machine relied on the fact that the underlying rule governing encryption could be expressed as a mathematical formula. Today’s computers are Turing-complete and thus in theory are capable of emulating a universal Turing machine such as the Bombe.
The Bombe measured about 2 m × 0.5 m × 1.5 m (6 ft 7 in × 1 ft 5 in × 5 ft). It weighed over a tonne (1.1 tons), occupied an area of about 20 square metres (215 sq ft), and had about 1 km (0.62 mi) of wire on its revolving drums. It could check around 10,000 possible wheel orders per second; an equivalent modern computer would take several days to complete the
