Cryptography: The Science of Secret Writing
by Laurence Dwight Smith
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Elementary account of ciphers, history, types, etc., with 151 examples of ciphers and codes. Solutions. Good introduction for beginners.Tags
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Indeholder "Preface", "I. Secret Weapon No. One", "II. The History of Secret Writing", "III. Transposition Ciphers", "IV. Substitution Cipher", "V. Codes compared with Ciphers", "VI. Cryptanalysis: Transpositional Ciphers, Informal Substitution Ciphers, Formal Substitution Ciphers", "VII. Problems", "VIII. Solutions", "Appendix A. Some Notes on the Enciphering of Japanese", "Appendix B. The Baconian Biliteral Cipher", "Appendix C. Frequency Tables", "Appendix D. Bibliography", "Appendix E. Definitions", "Index".
Kryptografi på fodgængerniveau.
Kryptografi på fodgængerniveau.
Jan 18, 2011 (Edited)Danish
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Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 1943
- First words
- At the outbreak of the Second World War, possibly no shortage was more acute -or less publishized- than that of qualified cryptographers.
- Quotations
- In the combat zone, nerves are taut. Who at moments of great tension could cope with the complications mentioned above, either in enciphering or deciphering? (pp. 75)
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)VARIANTS, two or more letters or characters that represent plain-text letters.
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- Nonfiction, Technology, General Nonfiction, Science & Nature
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- 793 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Indoor games and amusements
- LCC
- Z104 .S5 — Bibliography, Library Science and Information Resources Books (General). Writing. Paleography Writing Cryptography. Ciphers. Invisible writing
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