History of Cryptography and Cryptanalysis Codes, Ciphers, and Their Algorithms /

• Main Author: Dooley, John F. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: History of Computing,
• Subjects: Coding theory.; Information theory.; Computers.; Computer science-Mathematics.; History.; Coding and Information Theory.; History of Computing.; Math Applications in Computer Science.; History of Science.

This accessible textbook presents a fascinating review of cryptography and cryptanalysis across history. The text relates the earliest use of the monoalphabetic cipher in the ancient world, the development of the "unbreakable" Vigenère cipher, and an account of how cryptology entered the...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: A Revolutionary Cipher
• Crypto Before 1500: A Bit of Magic
• The Black Chambers: 1500 - 1776
• Crypto Goes to War: The American Revolution
• Crypto Goes to War: The American Civil War 1861 - 1865
• Crypto and the War to End All Wars: 1914 - 1919
• The Interwar Period: 1919 - 1941
• The Rise of the Machines: 1918 - 1941
• Battle Against the Machines: World War II 1939 - 1945
• The Machines Take Over: Computer Cryptography
• Alice and Bob and Whit and Martin: Public-Key Cryptography
• Web and Mobile Device Cryptology
• Cyber Weapons and Cyber Warfare
• Cryptology and the Internet of Things
• What is Next in Cryptology?
• Cipher Mysteries.