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Cryptographic numen, modelled as nano-wire.

In the News

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  1997: Steganographic analysis of Janet Beta at ENIAC reveals previously unknown cryptographic numen.

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  August 4, 1963: Cryptanalyst, mathematician, and crime-fighter Solomon Kullback visits the Nested Radical coffeehouse in New Minneapolis, Canada, where he gives an impromptu lecture on the application of data processing technology to the interpretation of cryptographic numina.

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  Mystic and faith healer Grigori Rasputin publishes new class of cryptographic numen in violation of agreement with The Custodian.

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  The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is a copy of The Unruly Submarine, which Allied cryptographers later use to generate cryptographic numina.

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  World War II: Allied cryptographers reverse engineer The Unruly Submarine, generating previously unknown types of cryptographic numina.

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  Johannes Trithemius observes cryptographic numen while researching Gnomon algorithm functions.

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  Classical numen (nonfiction) satisfied with present condition, feels no need for cryptographic upgrade.

Fiction cross-reference

• Cryptographic numen - a numen (nonfiction) arising from cryptography (nonfiction).
• Gray light - a form of light (nonfiction) exerted by artificial intelligence (nonfiction).
• Dial U for Unspoofable - film noir encryption mystery starring Niles Cartouchian as mathematician Kurt Gödel. The film is famous for using in-camera effects to record the emergence of a licensed cryptographic numen, although much of the footage is is obscured by the emotions of witnesses, who were overwhelmed by the numen's extraordinarily vivid display of gray light.

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Numen (nonfiction)
• Cryptography (nonfiction)

Attribution:

SEM image of epitaxial nanowire heterostructures grown from catalytic gold nanoparticles.

Nanowires by Thomas Mårtensson; SEM image by Kristian Mølhave.

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