Decrypted Secrets: Methods and Maxims of Cryptology

by Friedrich L. Bauer

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 networks are appearing, which also extend to access rights and source file protection. The first part of this book treats secret codes and their uses - cryptography. The second part deals with the process of covertly decrypting a secret code - cryptanalysis - where in particular advice on assessing methods is given. The book presupposes only elementary mathematical knowledge. Spiced with a wealth of exciting, amusing, and sometimes personal stories from the history of cryptology, it will also interest general readers. Decrypted Secrets has become a standard book on cryptology. This 4th edition has again been revised and extended in many technical and biographical details.

Genres: Mathematics, Nonfiction

539 pages, Hardcover

First published January 16, 1995

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[A Little Feedback · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've never read this book, but I came across it on a stoop on my block. I guess the people who live there decrypted all the secrets they needed to. Happy for them. I hope whoever takes it next cracks the most challenging codes in their lives too. @alitlefeedback