Disappearing Cryptography: Being and Nothingness on the Net (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Software Engineering and Programming)

Wayner, Peter

ISBN 10: 0127386718 / ISBN 13: 9780127386713

Published by Academic Press, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Disappearing Cryptography: Being and Nothingness on the Net (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Software Engineering and Programming)
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0127386718
• ISBN 13: 9780127386713
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very good

About this title

Synopsis

This book deals with how information can disappear so that no one knows of its existence. Convential cryptography merely scambles information into an impenetrable block. This book describes how data can be hidden in the background noise of pictures, sound recording or even bad poetry.Disappearing Cryptography is a collection of mathematical tricks and computational sleights of hand that explore the very foundations of information.


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* Visual stenography
* Covers textual cryptoanalysis
* Discusses how to set up networks with hidden communications

About the Author

Peter Wayner is a writer living in Baltimore and is the author of Digital Cash and Agents at Large (both Academic Press). His writings appear in numerous academic journals as well as the pages of more popular forums such as MacWorld and the New York Times. He has taught various computer science courses at Cornell University and Georgetown University.