The New Codebreakers
Essays Dedicated to David Kahn on the Occasion of His 85th Birthday
Editors: Ryan, Peter Y. A., Naccache, David, Quisquater, Jean-Jacques (Eds.)
Free Preview- Contains lectures given at a Fest in Luxembourg in 2010 on the occasion of David Kahn's 80th birthday
- The Festschrift includes talks by many of the world's leading cryptographers and security experts
- Covers a wide range from theoretical cryptography to security applications and from the history of intelligence to recreational applications
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This Festschrift volume is published in honor of David Kahn and is the outcome of a Fest held in Luxembourg in 2010 on the occasion of David Kahn’s 80th birthday. The title of this books leans on the title of a serious history of cryptology named “The Codebreakers”, written by David Kahn and published in 1967.
This book contains 35 talks dealing with cryptography as a whole. They are organized in topical section named: history; technology – past, present, future; efficient cryptographic implementations; treachery and perfidy; information security; cryptanalysis; side-channel attacks; randomness embedded system security; public-key cryptography; and models and protocols.
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Mary of Guise’s Enciphered Letters
Pages 3-24
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About Professionalisation in the Intelligence Community: The French Cryptologists (ca 1870–ca 1945)
Pages 25-33
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Myths and Legends of the History of Cryptology
Pages 34-39
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Vernam, Mauborgne, and Friedman: The One-Time Pad and the Index of Coincidence
Pages 40-66
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The Fall of a Tiny Star
Pages 69-87
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Table of contents (33 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The New Codebreakers
- Book Subtitle
- Essays Dedicated to David Kahn on the Occasion of His 85th Birthday
- Editors
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- Peter Y. A. Ryan
- David Naccache
- Jean-Jacques Quisquater
- Series Title
- Security and Cryptology
- Series Volume
- 9100
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-662-49301-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-662-49301-4
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-662-49300-7
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIV, 551
- Number of Illustrations
- 135 b/w illustrations
- Topics
