You probably used ciphers when you were young with friends and didn't even realize it. Keeping secrets from people who wanted to know the secrets you had. Numbers have been around for thousands of years. To encrypt something is to hide the specific meaning of the messages, but not the existence of the message. The need to hide messages has been with us since we left the caves back in the day. Most of the early forms of encryption we have were mostly recovered from Egypt, Greece, and Rome. There are several types of encryption used around the world today, for example in banks and even on computers. Encryptions are used to prevent unwanted people or technologies from seeing things you don't want others to see, such as personal information. Some people can decrypt them using a key or a series of steps to bypass the cipher. One of the oldest technical studies of which we can find traces is known as encryption. The use of numerals has been documented dating back to Egypt 2000 BC. Ciphers are also known by many other names such as the most commonly used word cryptography (cryp•tog•ra•phy), cryptography comes from the Greek words kryptos and graphein, meaning 'hidden and written, respectively'. Encryption is also not encryption or obfuscation. Numbers are an ancient scientific art used to write secret codes. Some ancient figures are the hieroglyphs used to embellish the tombs of deceased rulers and kings. The hieroglyphs told the story of the deceased's life. Over time, it became more and more difficult to decipher these hieroglyphs. These hieroglyphs probably would not have been deciphered before the computer age if the Rosetta Stone had not been deciphered in the early 19th century. Around 500 BC, the Spartans created...... middle of paper ......sent messages from different nations. These cryptologists were known as Dark Rooms. Some of the most famous Dark Chambers were the Austrain Geheime Kabinets-Kanzlei in Vienna, the French Cabinet Noir and later the British Chamber 40, infamous for its extraordinary ability to capture and decipher different types of military and political positions. , machines such as the Hebern rotor machine and the Engima machine were beginning to be built to create ciphers for military and other purposes. The majority of work on cryptography was for military purposes, typically used to conceal mysterious military data. Regardless, cryptography gained postwar business attention as organizations attempted to secure their information from competitors. Throughout and before World War II, the main provisions of cryptography were military..