| Description |
283 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-275) and index. |
| Contents |
Secret writing in war and peace -- Hidden messages and codebooks -- Codebooks in World War I -- He came, he saw, he encoded -- How a monalphabetic code is cracked -- Caesars in rank and file -- Keywords without end -- Shuffled texts -- From coding disk to enigma -- Enigma's secret is unveiled -- The arrival of the computer -- Encryption quite publicly -- Smart cards, one-way functions, and mousetraps. |
| Subject |
Cryptography.
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Cryptography -- History.
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| ISBN |
0879519193 |
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