| Gilbert Vernam's Paper Tape | |
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Origin |
Gilbert Vernam |
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Type |
Paper Tape |
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Effects |
Converts text into a poly-alphabetic cipher |
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Downsides |
Illegible text |
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Activation |
Contact with documents |
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Collected by |
Warehouse 13 |
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Section |
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Aisle |
696468-4553 |
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Shelf |
849988-1454-395 |
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Date of Collection |
1970 |
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Origin[]
Gilbert Sandford Vernam (1890 - 1960) was an engineer who invented an additive poly-alphabetic stream cipher. Vernam propose that a teleprinter cipher kept on paper tape be combined character by character with a plaintext message to produce a cipertext. To decipher the ciphertext, the same key would be once again used to create the plaintext. This system helped forge the way for telegraph networks and automatic switching systems.
Effects[]
When placed on top of any document it converts all text into a poly-alphabetic stream cipher, document becomes unreadable