| 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
Edit
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.
EffectsEdit
When placed on top of any document it converts all text into a poly-alphabetic stream cipher, document becomes unreadable
