ABSTRACT

Winner of an Outstanding Academic Title Award from CHOICE MagazineMost available cryptology books primarily focus on either mathematics or history. Breaking this mold, Secret History: The Story of Cryptology gives a thorough yet accessible treatment of both the mathematics and history of cryptology. Requiring minimal mathematical prerequisites, the

chapter 1|8 pages

- Ancient Roots

chapter 4|26 pages

- Transposition Ciphers

chapter 5|40 pages

- Shakespeare, Jefferson, and JFK

chapter 6|42 pages

- World War I and Herbert O. Yardley

chapter 7|18 pages

- Matrix Encryption

chapter 8|48 pages

- World War II: The Enigma of Germany

chapter 9|36 pages

- Cryptologic War against Japan

chapter 10|12 pages

- Claude Shannon

chapter 11|28 pages

- National Security Agency

chapter 12|34 pages

- Data Encryption Standard

chapter 13|24 pages

- Birth of Public Key Cryptography

chapter 14|32 pages

- Attacking RSA

chapter 15|30 pages

- Primality Testing and Complexity Theory

chapter 16|14 pages

- Authenticity

chapter 17|16 pages

- Pretty Good Privacy

chapter 18|14 pages

- Stream Ciphers

chapter 19|26 pages

- Suite B All-Stars

chapter 20|16 pages

- Possible Futures