Decrypted Secrets: Methods and Maxims of Cryptology - Hardcover

Bauer, F.L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3540604189 ISBN 13: 9783540604181

Publisher: Springer, 1996

Synopsis

Cryptology, for millennia a "secret science", is rapidly gaining in practical importance for the protection of communication channels, databases, and software. Beside its role in computerized information systems (public key systems), more and more applications inside computer systems and networks are appearing, which also extend to access rights and source file protection. The first part of this book treats secret codes and their uses - cryptography. The second part deals with the process of covertly decrypting a secret code - cryptanalysis - where in particular advice on assessing methods is given. The book presupposes only elementary mathematical knowledge. Spiced with a wealth of exciting, amusing, and sometimes personal stories from the history of cryptology, it will also interest general readers.

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Review:

"the best single book on cryptology today" David Kahn, author of the classic, "The Codebreakers"

Synopsis:

Cryptology is rapidly gaining in practical importance for the protection of communication channels, databases and software; besides its role in computerized information systems (public key systems), more and more applications inside computer systems and networks are appearing, which also extend to access rights and source file protection. The first part of this book deals with codes and their uses (cryptography), whilst the second deals with the process of covertly decrypting a secret code (cryptanalysis). The book presupposes only elementary mathematical knowledge and this, combined with stories from the history of cryptology, makes it suitable for the general reader.

About this edition

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 3540604189
• ISBN 13: 9783540604181
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 464