One of the first recorded Man-in-the-Middle attacks literally cost someone their head

Encryption has never been more universal than it is in 2018. Nowadays, as of the last week of July, every website on the internet needs to have an SSL certificate installed so that it can secure connections made with its visitors’ browsers via Encryption.

And it’s easy to let yourself think that encryption is a fairly recent invention given that we typically see it used in a digital context. Encryption is what protects our data online. But it’s been protecting data since way before the creation of the internet.

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