DOI: 10.21276/sjet.2017.5.2.6

Pages: 62-69

Cryptography has been practiced to conceal messages science antiquity by different civilizations, including the ancient Egyptian, Chinese, Indian, Mesopotamian, Greek and Roman. But in none of them was there any cryptanalysis, only cryptography existed. Cryptology, the science of both making ciphers (cryptography) and breaking them (cryptanalysis), was born among the Arabs shortly after the rise of the Arab-Islamic empire. Many Arab scholars wrote on, and excelled in practicing, both branches of cryptology. The aim of this paper is to discuss not-widely-known ibn Tabataba contributions to cryptology in poet and his effort in this field.