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Systematized requirements for military cryptography, including the principle that a cryptosystem should remain secure even when everything about the system except the key is public knowledge.
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The record is the exact 1883 French work digitized by the Bibliothèque nationale de France, extracted from the Journal des sciences militaires. Later restatements, modern threat models, computational security definitions and individual cipher designs remain separate.
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Auguste Kerckhoffs
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Kerckhoffs: La Cryptographie militaire
Systematized requirements for military cryptography, including the principle that a cryptosystem should remain secure even when everything about the system except the key is public knowledge.
Scientific scope
The record is the exact 1883 French work digitized by the Bibliothèque nationale de France, extracted from the Journal des sciences militaires. Later restatements, modern threat models, computational security definitions and individual cipher designs remain separate.
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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
Auguste Kerckhoffs
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.