ISBN:

• 9781622750344
• 1622750349

Edition: First edition.

Description: xvi, 80 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Other Title: Cracking codes

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 77) and index.

Contents:

• Cryptography, cryptanalysis, and cryptology. The fundamentals of codes, ciphers, and authentication
• Cryptology in private and commercial life
• Cipher systems. Transposition ciphers
• Substitution ciphers
• Playfair ciphers
• Vigenère ciphers
• Vernam-Vigenère ciphers
• Product ciphers
• Key systems and block and stream ciphers. Single-key cryptography
• Two-key cryptography
• Public-key cryptography
• Secret-sharing
• RSA encryption
• Block and stream ciphers
• Cryptanalysis. Basic aspects
• Types of cryptanalysis
• Early manual and mechanical cryptography. The first systems
• World wars I and II
• Modern electronic cryptography. The impact of electronics
• DES and AES.

LCCN: 2012035291

Control Number: 963444

Series:

• Intelligence and counterintelligence
• Intelligence and counterintelligence.

Subjects:

• Ciphers -- Juvenile literature.
• Cryptography -- History -- Juvenile literature.
• Data encryption (Computer science) -- Juvenile literature.
• Espionage -- Juvenile literature.

Other Authors: Curley, Rob.