A Brief History of Cryptology and Cryptographic Algorithms

✍ Scribed by John F. Dooley (auth.)

Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 104
Series: SpringerBriefs in Computer Science
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

The science of cryptology is made up of two halves. Cryptography is the study of how to create secure systems for communications. Cryptanalysis is the study of how to break those systems. The conflict between these two halves of cryptology is the story of secret writing. For over 2,000 years, the desire to communicate securely and secretly has resulted in the creation of numerous and increasingly complicated systems to protect one's messages. Yet for every system there is a cryptanalyst creating a new technique to break that system. With the advent of computers the cryptographer seems to finally have the upper hand. New mathematically based cryptographic algorithms that use computers for encryption and decryption are so secure that brute-force techniques seem to be the only way to break them – so far. This work traces the history of the conflict between cryptographer and cryptanalyst, explores in some depth the algorithms created to protect messages, and suggests where the field is going in the future.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: A Revolutionary Cipher....Pages 1-9
Cryptology Before 1500: A Bit of Magic....Pages 11-17
The Black Chambers: 1500–1776....Pages 19-29
Crypto Goes to War: 1861–1865....Pages 31-42
Crypto and the War to End All Wars: 1914–1918....Pages 43-51
The Interwar Period 1919–1939....Pages 53-61
The Coming of the Machines: 1918–1945....Pages 63-74
The Machines Take Over: Computer Cryptography....Pages 75-86
Alice and Bob and Whit and Martin: Public Key Crypto....Pages 87-96
Back Matter....Pages 97-99

✦ Subjects

History of Computing; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory; History of Science

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