Craig Bauer (Physical Sciences Depart York College of Pennsylvania

Secret History

The Story of Cryptology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This unique, award winning book offers a thorough yet accessible treatment of both the mathematics and history of cryptology. Requiring minimal mathematical perparation, the book presents the mathematics in sufficient detail and weaves the history throughout the chapters. In addition to the fascinating historical and political sides of cryptology, the author-a former Scholar-in-Residence at the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) Center for Cryptologic History-includes interesting instances of codes and ciphers in crime, literature, music, and art. The book helps further enlivens the already extremely popular field of cryptology.

Produktdetails

• Chapman & Hall/CRC Cryptography and Network Security Series
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 614
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 175mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1364g
• ISBN-13: 9781138061231
• ISBN-10: 1138061239
• Artikelnr.: 60354818

Autorenporträt

Craig P. Bauer is an associate professor of mathematics at York College of Pennsylvania and the editor-in-chief of Cryptologia. He was the 2011-2012 Scholar-in-Residence at the National Security Agency (NSA) Center for Cryptologic History, where he wrote several papers for NSA journals, gave numerous lectures, and made substantial progress on a second book focused on unsolved codes and ciphers. He earned a PhD in mathematics at North Carolina State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Classical Cryptology 1. Monoalphabetic Substitution Ciphers, or
MASCs: Disguises for Messages 2. Simple Progression to an Unbreakable
Cipher 3. Transposition Ciphers 4. Shakespeare, Jefferson, and JFK 5. World
War I and Herbert O. Yardley 6. Matrix Encryption 7. World War II: The
Enigma of Germany 8. Cryptologic War against Japan 9. SIGABA: World War II
Defense 10. Enciphering Speech Part II: Modern Cryptology 11. Claude
Shannon 12. National Security Agency 13. The Data Encryption Standard 14.
The Birth of Public Key Cryptography 15. Attacking RSA 16. Primality
Testing and Complexity Theory 17. Authenticity 18. Pretty Good Privacy and
Bad Politics 19. Stream Ciphers 20. Suite B All-Stars 21. Toward Tomorrow