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A Brief History of Cryptology and Cryptographic Algorithms

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  • © 2013

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Authors:
  1. John F. Dooley

    1. Knox College, Galesburg, USA

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  • Traces the history of the conflict between cryptographer and cryptanalyst
  • Explores in some depth the algorithms created to protect messages
  • Suggests where the field of cryptology is going in the future

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Computer Science (BRIEFSCOMPUTER)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: A Revolutionary Cipher

    • John F. Dooley
    Pages 1-9

  3. Cryptology Before 1500: A Bit of Magic

    • John F. Dooley
    Pages 11-17

  4. The Black Chambers: 1500–1776

    • John F. Dooley
    Pages 19-29

  5. Crypto Goes to War: 1861–1865

    • John F. Dooley
    Pages 31-42

  6. Crypto and the War to End All Wars: 1914–1918

    • John F. Dooley
    Pages 43-51

  7. The Interwar Period 1919–1939

    • John F. Dooley
    Pages 53-61

  8. The Coming of the Machines: 1918–1945

    • John F. Dooley
    Pages 63-74

  9. The Machines Take Over: Computer Cryptography

    • John F. Dooley
    Pages 75-86

  10. Alice and Bob and Whit and Martin: Public Key Crypto

    • John F. Dooley
    Pages 87-96

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 97-99
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About this book

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.

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“The primary value of the work is for those interested in the development of DES and AES, or for those working on the key exchange issue, which lies at the heart of the RSA algorithm. It will also be useful for readers who might want to use it as a text in computer security courses, especially since that is how the author intended it in the first place.” (G. Mick Smith, Computer Reviews, March, 2014)

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  • Knox College, Galesburg, USA

    John F. Dooley

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