CODE BREAKING; A HISTORY AND EXPLORATION.

Kippenhahn, Rudolf.

ISBN 10: 0879519193 / ISBN 13: 9780879519193

Published by Woodstock and New York: The Overlook Press, 1999., 1999

About this Item

Reprint. 283 pages. Hardcover; H 23.5cm x L 15.5cm. Black dust jacket lightly rubbed. Black cloth spine with black boards. A still fairly crisp fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. With two Prefaces, four appendices, and Index. Features thirteen chapters titled as: "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;" and "Smart Cards, One-Way Functions, and Mousetraps." ISBN 0879519193.

Seller Inventory # PXZP-11884

Bibliographic Details

• Title: CODE BREAKING; A HISTORY AND EXPLORATION.
• Publisher: Woodstock and New York: The Overlook Press, 1999.
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0879519193
• ISBN 13: 9780879519193
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mathematics

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Synopsis

Rich with vivid anecdotes from a history of coding and decoding and featuring three new chapters, this revised and expanded edition makes the often abstruse art of deciphering coded messages accessible to the general reader and reveals the relevance of c

Synopsis

Disusses concepts and terminologies, looks at the history of cryptography, and examines contemporary techniques and privacy issues.