https://polymonial.com/blog Polymonial on Smart Data Infrastructure: insight on data security, regulation, sovereignty and trust. en-gb https://polymonial.com/blog/what-is-smart-data-infrastructure https://polymonial.com/blog/what-is-smart-data-infrastructure Mon, 09 Nov 2026 09:00:00 GMT Smart Data Infrastructure keeps your data secure, trusted and under your control, so you can share it, store it and use it without losing hold of it. https://polymonial.com/blog/why-we-built-polymonial https://polymonial.com/blog/why-we-built-polymonial Sun, 08 Nov 2026 09:00:00 GMT For decades, data has had to be copied to be trusted. We built Polymonial so that data can answer for itself, wherever it goes. https://polymonial.com/blog/friedman-codebreaking-becomes-a-science https://polymonial.com/blog/friedman-codebreaking-becomes-a-science Sat, 07 Nov 2026 09:00:00 GMT Around 1920, William Friedman showed how counting coincidences between letters could break ciphers, and brought rigorous statistics into codebreaking. https://polymonial.com/blog/turing-and-bletchley-park https://polymonial.com/blog/turing-and-bletchley-park Fri, 06 Nov 2026 09:00:00 GMT At Bletchley Park, Alan Turing and thousands of colleagues read enemy messages at scale. Their work helped shape the war and the computer age. https://polymonial.com/blog/babbage-and-kasiski-breaking-the-indecipherable-cipher https://polymonial.com/blog/babbage-and-kasiski-breaking-the-indecipherable-cipher Thu, 05 Nov 2026 09:00:00 GMT For centuries the Vigenère cipher was called indecipherable. Then Babbage and Kasiski found that its repeats reveal the key. https://polymonial.com/blog/vernam-and-mauborgne-the-one-time-pad https://polymonial.com/blog/vernam-and-mauborgne-the-one-time-pad Wed, 04 Nov 2026 09:00:00 GMT A teleprinter cipher from 1917, made perfect by one rule: a truly random key, used once. It can never be broken, and it comes with a catch. https://polymonial.com/blog/al-kindi-the-first-codebreakers-manual https://polymonial.com/blog/al-kindi-the-first-codebreakers-manual Tue, 03 Nov 2026 09:00:00 GMT In ninth-century Baghdad, al-Kindi wrote the earliest surviving guide to breaking ciphers. His key insight: letters give themselves away. https://polymonial.com/blog/kerckhoffs-1883-the-secret-is-the-key https://polymonial.com/blog/kerckhoffs-1883-the-secret-is-the-key Mon, 02 Nov 2026 09:00:00 GMT In 1883 Auguste Kerckhoffs argued that a cipher should stay safe even if the enemy knows how it works. It still shapes how security is judged. https://polymonial.com/blog/our-mission-make-data-usable-without-making-it-vulnerable https://polymonial.com/blog/our-mission-make-data-usable-without-making-it-vulnerable Sun, 01 Nov 2026 09:00:00 GMT We exist to give every organisation the infrastructure to store, move, share and use its data with confidence, wherever it goes.