Cryptography: cracking codes
"Double agents, code-cracking, and covert operations are not just the stuff of action movies or thrillers. Intelligence communities--comprised of spies as well as cryptographers and experts in a variety of other fields--have played significant roles in both past and present wars as well as in determining foreign threats, such as terrorism, to national security. The seemingly mystery-shrouded world of intelligence agencies and the tactics, strategies, and operations associated with them are made…
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- Full title :Cryptography : cracking codes / edited by Rob Curley, Senior editor, Science and Technology.
Summary
"Double agents, code-cracking, and covert operations are not just the stuff of action movies or thrillers. Intelligence communities--comprised of spies as well as cryptographers and experts in a variety of other fields--have played significant roles in both past and present wars as well as in determining foreign threats, such as terrorism, to national security. The seemingly mystery-shrouded world of intelligence agencies and the tactics, strategies, and operations associated with them are made accessible to readers through an in-depth look at intelligence agencies around the world as well as the fundamentals of cryptography"--The publisher.
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- Publication Date:2013.
- Edition:First edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Britannica Educational Publishing in Association with Rosen Educational Services
- Place of Publication:New York, NY
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013.
The Physical Object
- Description:xvi, 80 pages : : illustrations (some color) ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781622750344, 1622750349
- oclc:ocn819741371
- LC Classification:Z103
- Dewey Decimal:005.8/2
Table of Contents
Introduction -- Cryptography, cryptanalysis, and cryptology -- The fundamentals of codes, ciphers, and authentication -- Cryptology in private and commercial life -- Cipher systems -- Transposition ciphers -- Substitution ciphers -- Playfair ciphers -- Vigenère ciphers -- Vernam-vigenère ciphers -- Product ciphers -- Key systems and block and stream ciphers -- Single-key cryptography -- Two-key cryptography -- Public-key cryptography -- Secret-sharing -- RSA encryption -- Block and stream ciphers -- Cryptanalysis -- Basic aspects -- Types of cryptanalysis -- Early manual and mechanical cryptography -- The first systems -- World wars I and II -- Modern electronic cryptography -- The impact of electronics -- DES and AES -- Conclusion.
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