Code Breaking: A History and Exploration.

Kippenhahn, Rudolf:

ISBN 10: 1585670898 / ISBN 13: 9781585670895

Published by Woodstock, New York: Overlook Press, 2000

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283 p. Ill. Beigelegter Zeitungsausschnitt, Filzstift-Strich auf dem Fußschnitt, ansonsten ein sehr gutes und sauberes Exemplar ohne Anstreichungen. Einige farbige Illustrationen. / Enclosed newspaper clipping, felt-tip pen line on the foot cut, otherwise a very good and clean copy without markings. Some colored illustrations. // Contents: PREFACE -- PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION -- 1 SECRET WRITING IN WAR AND PEACE -- Radio operator Klausen transmits to Moscow -- The secret of the wax tablets -- The secret message to Count Sandorf -- How Mary, Queen of Scots, was betrayed -- The riddle of the Man in the Iron Mask -- Thomas Jefferson's wheel -- Signs on gravestones and walls -- The art of encoding -- 2 HIDDEN MESSAGES AND CODEBOOKS -- The explosive message in a harmless text -- Shakespeare as a matchmaker -- Playing dice in the air-raid shelter -- The hidden message in the account number -- Every book is unique -- From jargon to codebook -- The codebook of the Pope -- 3 CODEBOOKS IN WORLD WAR I -- The Magdeburg runs aground -- The signal book of the Magdeburg in Room 40 -- How was the United States to be kept out of the war? -- The Zimmermann telegram -- The telegram is decoded -- 4 HE CAME, HE SAW, HE ENCODED -- The secret writing of Julius Caesar -- A Caesar with a mnemonic -- The laws of shuffling -- Permutations -- The universal library -- A superfluous machine -- 5 HOW A MONALPHABETIC CODE IS CRACKED -- Edgar Allan Poe decodes to order -- Sherlock Holmes and the Dancing Men -- The frequent e and the infrequent q -- A secret text is decoded -- The foundlings of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung -- The deceitfulness of tapeworms -- Disguised frequencies -- Unfair play with Playfair -- Playfair in World War II -- 6 CAESARS IN RANK AND FILE -- The abbot who was not entirely trustworthy -- Blaise de Vigenère's tableau -- Blurred frequencies -- Decoding with a sledgehammer -- How a Vigenère cipher is cracked -- The rhythm of the keyword -- 7 KEYWORDS WITHOUT END -- Carl Sagan's Contact as a code worm -- It need not always be a Caesar -- Polybius's table -- Encoding with a number worm -- Chance has no memory -- Chance artificially produced -- Key worms in the telephone book -- 8 SHUFFLED TEXTS -- Anagrams -- Shuffled text against shuffled alphabet -- The template of the Austrian colonel -- Transposition with keyword -- Polybius in World War I -- 9 FROM CODING DISK TO ENIGMA -- The invention of the wheel -- Three inventors-but only one became rich -- The curse of the reflecting cylinder -- The radio signal without L -- Hitler's Enigma -- 10 ENIGMA'S SECRET IS UNVEILED -- 4 93 95 66 -- Wanted: young mathematicians with an interest in cryptology -- 101 -- The first six letters of the Enigma signals The German spy and the murdered chief of staff A bombe against Enigma Three mathematicians escape Rejewski's last decoding The Bletchley Park crowd The tragic story of Alan Turing The spy to whom Hitler disclosed his secrets Ultra's successful advance The Battle of the Atlantic Japanese radio signals from burning Berlin -- 104 -- 108 08 -- 11 THE ARRIVAL OF THE COMPUTER -- Other numerical systems -- Mathematics in a two-finger world -- Ciphers in the Telex system -- DES, the American standard system Encryption and authority -- 12. ENCRYPTION QUITE PUBLICLY -- The recipe for asymmetrical encryption -- Mr. White encodes, Mrs. Black decodes -- A short lesson on keys Numbers that cannot be divided Sieved numbers What still awaits exploration Prime number encryption -- Asymmetrical but fast -- 13 SMART CARDS, ONE-WAY FUNCTIONS, AND MOUSETRAPS -- Who am I? -- The plastic card -- The secret number: a simple version -- Encoded PINS -- Mathematical mousetraps -- My bank account is protected by a one-way function -- The computer in the cash card -- The plastic card as wallet -- Electronic signatures -- Electronic IDs -- APPENDIX A -- A homemade encrypting machine -- APPENDIX B -- Your computer as Enigma -- APPENDIX C -- How the three magic key numb.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Code Breaking: A History and Exploration.
• Publisher: Woodstock, New York: Overlook Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1585670898
• ISBN 13: 9781585670895
• Binding: Broschur / paperback.
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Seller catalogs:
  • Kryptographie

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Synopsis

The achievements of cryptography, the art of writing and deciphering coded messages, have become a part of everyday life, especially in our age of electronic banking and the Internet. In Code Breaking , Rudolf Kippenhahn offers readers both an exciting chronicle of cryptography and a lively exploration of the cryptographer’s craft. Rich with vivid anecdotes from a history of coding and decoding and featuring three new chapters, this revised and expanded edition makes the often abstruse art of deciphering coded messages accessible to the general reader and reveals the relevance of codes to our everyday high-tech society. A stylishly written, meticulously researched adventure, Code Breaking explores the ways in which communication can be obscured and, like magic, made clear again.

About the Author

Rudolf Kippenhahn is the award-winning author of One Hundred Billion Suns and the former director of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics inMunich. For ten years he was a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Göttingen.

Ewald Osers (1917-2011) was an award-winning translator of Czech and German.