Selections from Cryptologia: History, People and Technology

by Cipher A. Deavours, Greg Mellen (Editor), David A. Kahn (Editor)

Overview

Here is the third collection of the very best, most compelling articles and professional papers from CRYPTOLOGIA, the definitive journal on the history and technology of cryptology. Compiled by five distinguished experts in the field, Selections from Cryptologia: History, People, and Technology offers personal accounts of crypto personalities, scholarly papers on the origins of cryptology, the inadequacy of cryptanalysis, and much more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780890068625
Publisher:	Artech House, Incorporated
Publication date:	02/28/1998
Series:	Artech House Telecommunications Library Series
Pages:	552
Product dimensions:	7.39(w) x 10.39(h) x 1.35(d)

Editorial Reviews

The third volume of greatest hits from the periodical, with 35 tales from the crypt. Historical perspectives include the failure to break codes at Pearl Harbor, the Arab contribution to the origins of cryptology, code breaking and the birth and structure of the United Nations, and why Safford was pessimistic about breaking the German Enigma cipher machine in 1942. The technology is reviewed with such topics as some Victorian periodic polyalphabetic ciphers, the 1946 Pendergass Report on cryptanalysis and the digital computer, an Enigma chronology, the Norwegian modifications of the Siemans and Halske T52e cipher machines, and the Autoscritcher. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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