Secret history : the story of cryptology /: the story of cryptology. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Craig P. Bauer.
• Other Names: Bauer, Craig P
• Contents: CLASSICAL CRYPTOLOGY; Ancient Roots; Caveman Crypto; Greek Cryptography; Viking Cryptography; Early Steganography Monalphabetic Substitution Ciphers, or MASCs: Disguises for Messages; Caesar Cipher; Other MASC Systems; Edgar Allen Poe; Arthur Conan Doyle; Frequency Analysis; Biblical Cryptology; More Frequencies and Pattern Words; Vowel Recognition Algorithms; More MASCs; Cryptanalysis of a MASC; Unsolved Ciphers by a Killer and a Composer; Affine Ciphers; Morse Code and Huffman Coding; MASC Miscellanea; Nomenclators; Cryptanalysis of Nomenclators; Book Codes Simple Progression to an Unbreakable Cipher ; Vigenère Cipher; History of the Vigenère Cipher; Cryptanalysis of the Vigenère Cipher; Kryptos; Autokeys; Running Key Cipher and Its Cryptoanalysis; One-Time Pad or Vernam Cipher; Breaking the Unbreakable; Faking Randomness; Unsolved Cipher from 1915; OTPs and the SOE; History Rewritten! Transposition Ciphers ; Simple Rearrangements and Columnar Transposition; Cryptanalysis of Columnar Transposition; Historic Uses; Anagrams; Double Transposition; Word Transposition; Transposition Devices Shakespeare, Jefferson, and JFK ; Shakespeare vs. Bacon; Thomas Jefferson: President, Cryptographer; Cipher Wheel Cryptanalysis; Playfair Cipher; Playfair Cryptanalysis World War I and Herbert O. Yardley Zimmermann Telegram; ADFGX: A New Kind of Cipher; Cryptanalysis of ADFGX; Herbert O. Yardley; Peacetime Victory and a Tell-All Book; Case of the Seized Manuscript; Cashing in, Again; Herbert O. Yardley: Traitor; Censorship Matrix Encryption ; Levine and Hill; How Matrix Encryption Works; Levine’s Attacks; Bauer and Millward’s Attack; More Stories Left to Tell World War II: The Enigma of Germany ; Rise of the Machines; How Enigma Works; Calculating the Keyspace; Cryptanalysis Part 1. Recovering the Rotor Wirings; Cryptanalysis Part 2. Recovering the Daily Keys; After the Break; Alan Turing and Bletchley Park; Lorenz Cipher and Colossus; What If Enigma Had Never Been Broken?; Endings and New Beginnings Cryptologic War against Japan ; Forewarning of Pearl Harbor?; Friedman’s Team Assembles; Cryptanalysis of Red, a Japanese Diplomatic Cipher; Purple: How It Works; Purple Cryptanalysis; Practical Magic; Code Talkers; Code Talkers in Hollywood; Use of Languages as Oral Codes MODERN CRYPTOLOGY; Claude Shannon ; About Claude Shannon; Entropy; One More Time; Unicity Points; Dazed and Confused National Security Agency ; Origins of NSA; TEMPEST; Size and Budget; The Liberty and the Pueblo ; Church Committee Investigations; Post Cold War Downsizing; Some Speculation; 2000 and Beyond; Interviewing with NSA; BRUSA, UKUSA, and Echelon Data Encryption Standard ; How DES Works; Reactions to and Cryptanalysis of DES; EFF vs. DES; Second Chance; Interesting Feature; Modes of Encryption Birth of Public Key Cryptography ; Revolutionary Cryptologist; Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange; RSA: Solution from MIT; Government Control of Cryptologic Research; RSA Patented, Alice and Bob Born Free Attacking RSA ; Eleven Non-Factoring Attacks; Factoring Challenge; Trial Division and the Sieve of Eratosthenes (ca. 284–204 BCE); Fermat’s Factorization Method; Euler’s Factorization Method; Pollard’s p – 1 Algorithm; Dixon’s Algorithm; Pollard’s Number Field Sieve Primality Testing and Complexity Theory ; Some Facts about Primes; Fermat Test (1640); Miller-Rabin Test; Deterministic Tests for Primality; Complexity Classes, P vs. NP, Probabilistic vs. Deterministic; Ralph Merkle’s Public Key Systems; Knapsack Encryption; ElGamal Encryption Authenticity ; Problem from World War II; Digital Signatures (and Some Attacks); Hash Functions: Speeding Things Up; Digital Signature Algorithm Pretty Good Privacy ; Best of Both Worlds; Birth of PGP; In Zimmermann’s Own Words; Impact of PGP; Implementation Issues Stream Ciphers ; Congruential Generators; Linear Feedback Shift Registers; LFSR Attack; The Cellphone Stream Cipher A5/1; RC4 Suite B All-Stars ; Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC); Personalities behind ECC; Advanced Encryption Standard (AES); AES Attacks Possible Futures ; Quantum Cryptography: How It Works; Quantum Cryptography: Historical Background; DNA Computing Index References and Further Reading appear at the end of each chapter.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Chapman and Hall/CRC
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (620 pages), (58 illustrations)
• Subjects: 005.82; Data encryption (Computer science); Computer security; Cryptography -- History; Ciphers
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781466561878; 1466561874
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.