Code Breaking A History and Exploration

Name: Code Breaking A History and Exploration
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ISBN: 9780879519193

ISBN-10: 0879519193

ISBN-13: 9780879519193

Edition: N/A

Authors: Rudolph Kippenhahn

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Book details

List price: $29.95
Publisher: Abrams, Inc.
Publication date: 3/1/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 326
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Preface


Preface to the American Edition



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



A homemade encrypting machine



Your computer as Enigma



How the three magic key numbers are determined



PGP, the encryption program from the Internet


Further Reading


Index