Camelot & CyberGuard
Camelot
I’ve been poring over the old Templar manuscripts, and I keep wondering if those intricate sigils were an early form of cryptography. Do you think a medieval scribe could stand a chance against a modern hacker, or is it all just romantic myth?
CyberGuard
The sigils were probably just fancy decorations, not a full‑blown encryption system. A medieval scribe could have used simple substitution or transposition ciphers, but even that is no match for a modern brute‑force attack. So, the romantic myth has a lot of love, but not much practical security against today’s hackers.
Camelot
I appreciate your practical take, but even a simple substitution in a medieval hand shows a clever mind at work. The romance of those sigils lies not in foolproof security, but in the artistry of a scribe’s hand. Still, with today’s brute‑force power, any such cipher would be a mere footnote.
CyberGuard
Sure, the sigils look like a medieval masterpiece, but a 1‑GHz CPU with a 10‑year‑old dictionary would still crack a simple substitution in minutes. Scribes were artful, not security experts.
Camelot
Indeed, a 1‑GHz processor would break a Caesar shift in an instant, and the medieval scribes were far from cryptographers. Yet their scripts still bore secretive touches—simple letter‑substitutions or coded initials—used mostly to mask identities in royal correspondence. So while the CPU outpaces the cipher, the art of the ink still tells a tale of cleverness in a different realm.