Code breaking
Subtitle: a history and exploration
By: Rudolf Kippenhahn ; with Manfred Eyssell ; translated from the German, in collaboration with the author, by Ewald Osers and Lara Day Benjamin
Edition: Rev. and updated ed.
Publisher: Overlook Duckworth
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9781468300741
Subjects: Cryptography; History
Work titles: Verschlüsselte Botschaften
Description: A chronicle of cryptography and an explanation of the cryptographer's craft.
Notes: Translation of: Verschlüsselte Botschaften.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Secret writing in war and peace; title: Hidden messages and codebooks; title: Codebooks in World War I; title: He came, he saw, he encoded; title: How a monalphabetic code is cracked; title: Caesars in rank and file; title: Keywords without end; title: Shuffled texts; title: From coding disk to enigma; title: Enigma's secret is unveiled; title: The arrival of the computer; title: Encryption quite publicly; title: Smart cards, one-way functions, and mousetraps; title: Connected to the whole world; title: On dangerous ground.