Decrypted secrets : methods and maxims of cryptology /
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 within computer systems and n...
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Berlin ; New York :
Springer,
[2002]
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| Edition: | 3rd, revised and updated edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. I. Cryptography. 1. Introductory Synopsis. 2. Aims and Methods of Cryptography. 3. Encryption Steps: Simple Substitution. 4. Encryption Steps: Polygraphic Substitution and Coding. 5. Encryption Steps: Linear Substitution. 6. Encryption Steps: Transposition. 7. Polyalphabetic Encryption: Families of Alphabets. 8. Polyalphabetic Encryption: Keys. 9. Composition of Classes of Methods. 10. Open Encryption Key Systems. 11. Encryption Security
- Pt. II. Cryptanalysis. 12. Exhausting Combinatorial Complexity. 13. Anatomy of Language: Patterns. 14. Polyalphabetic Case: Probable Words. 15. Anatomy of Language: Frequencies. 16. Kappa and Chi. 17. Periodicity Examination. 18. Alignment of Accompanying Alphabets. 19. Compromises.