10 Interesting Fact About Famous historical codes and ciphers

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• The enigma code used by Nazis during World War II was broken by Alan Turing and the Bletchley Park team.
• Morse code was designed by Samuel Morse in 1837 and is still used today in telegraphy.
• Ciphertext from Vigenere Cipher is very difficult to solve because it uses different shift patterns.
• The Caesar Cipher code is used by Julius Caesar to send a secret message to its general.
• The Navajo code was used by the United States military during World War II to send a secret message between the Navajo army.
• Playfair Cipher Code was developed by Charles Wheatstone in 1854 and was used by the British military during World War I.
• The rail fence cipher code is used by ancient Roman soldiers and consists of writing messages in zigzag on paper.
• Cipher pigpen code is used by Freemasonry and has a unique symbol for each letter.
• The Enigma code became famous after the film The Immitation Game was released in 2014.
• There are many conspiracy theories about the zodiac code used by serial killers who were never identified in the late 1960s and early 1970s.