Overview
- This book reveals secrets and tells stories that will interest the general reader as well as the professional cryptologist
- The best single book on cryptology today." (David Kahn, Cryptologia)
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Cryptography
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Front Matter
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Keywords
About this book
Decrypted Secrets has become a standard book on cryptology. The new edition has been revised and extended in many details.
Reviews
"The best single book on cryptology today." -- Cryptologia (from a review of a previous edition)
From the reviews of the fourth edition:
"This comprehensive updated edition is divided into two sections. The first part of the book deals with The People and the second concentrates on The Machinery. … This volume includes 191 Figures, 29 Tables and 16 Color Plates, plus an Appendix. … Friedrich L. Bauer Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Computer Science … has written an outstanding book on cryptology that belongs in your personal library or as a gift for a friend. … There are other fascinating sidelights to this excellent book." (The Cryptogram, Page 15, 2007)
"By far the best single work on the subject." -- David Kahn
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Decrypted Secrets
Book Subtitle: Methods and Maxims of Cryptology
Authors: Friedrich L. Bauer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04024-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2000
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-04024-9Published: 17 April 2013
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XII, 471
Number of Illustrations: 119 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cryptology, Coding and Information Theory, Number Theory, Applications of Mathematics, Computers and Society