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A brief history of cryptology and cryptographic algorithms / John F. Dooley.

By: Series: SpringerBriefs in computer sciencePublisher: Cham : Springer, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: xii, 99 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9783319016276
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 005.8/2 23
LOC classification:
  • QA76.9 .A25 D66 2013
Contents:
Introduction: A Revolutionary Cipher -- Cryptology Before 1500: A Bit of Magic -- The Black Chambers: 1500-1776 -- Crypto Goes to War: 1861-1865 -- Crypto and the War to End All Wars: 1914-1918 -- The Interwar Period 1919-1939 -- The Coming of the Machines:
Summary: The science of cryptology is made up of two halves. Cryptography is the study of how to create secure systems for communications. Cryptanalysis is the study of how to break those systems. The conflict between these two halves of cryptology is the story of secret writing. For over two thousand years governments, armies, and now individuals have wanted to protect their messages from the "enemy". This desire to communicate securely and secretly has resulted in the creation of numerous and increasingly complicated systems to protect one's messages. On the other hand, for every new system to protect messages there is a cryptanalyst creating a new technique to break that system. With the advent of computers the cryptographer seems to finally have the upper hand. New mathematically based cryptographic algorithms that use computers for encryption and decryption are so secure that brute-force techniques seem to be the only way to break them so far. This work traces the history of the conflict between cryptographer and cryptanalyst, explores in some depth the algorithms created to protect messages, and suggests where the field is going in the future.
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The science of cryptology is made up of two halves. Cryptography is the study of how to create secure systems for communications. Cryptanalysis is the study of how to break those systems. The conflict between these two halves of cryptology is the story of secret writing. For over two thousand years governments, armies, and now individuals have wanted to protect their messages from the "enemy". This desire to communicate securely and secretly has resulted in the creation of numerous and increasingly complicated systems to protect one's messages. On the other hand, for every new system to protect messages there is a cryptanalyst creating a new technique to break that system. With the advent of computers the cryptographer seems to finally have the upper hand. New mathematically based cryptographic algorithms that use computers for encryption and decryption are so secure that brute-force techniques seem to be the only way to break them so far. This work traces the history of the conflict between cryptographer and cryptanalyst, explores in some depth the algorithms created to protect messages, and suggests where the field is going in the future.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: A Revolutionary Cipher -- Cryptology Before 1500: A Bit of Magic -- The Black Chambers: 1500-1776 -- Crypto Goes to War: 1861-1865 -- Crypto and the War to End All Wars: 1914-1918 -- The Interwar Period 1919-1939 -- The Coming of the Machines:

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