Real Life Cryptology

A large number of enciphered documents survived from early modern Hungary. This area was a particularly fertile territory where cryptographic methods proliferated, because a large portion of the population was living in the frontier zone, and participated (or was forced to participate) in the networ...

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Main Author: Lang, Benedek
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Language:English
Published: Amsterdam University Press 2018
Subjects:
Austria & Hungary
Coding theory and cryptology
Cryptography
Early modern history
Europe
HISTORY
History of science
Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects
Research and information: general
Social history
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Abstract A large number of enciphered documents survived from early modern Hungary. This area was a particularly fertile territory where cryptographic methods proliferated, because a large portion of the population was living in the frontier zone, and participated (or was forced to participate) in the network of the information flow. A quantitative analysis of sixteenth-century to seventeenth-century Hungarian ciphers (300 cipher keys and 1,600 partly or entirely enciphered letters) reveals that besides the dominance of diplomatic use of cryptography, there were many examples of “private” applications too. This book reconstructs the main reasons and goals why historical actors chose to use ciphers in a diplomatic letter, a military order, a diary or a private letter, what they decided to encrypt, and how they perceived the dangers threatening their messages.
AbstractList A large number of enciphered documents survived from early modern Hungary. This area was a particularly fertile territory where cryptographic methods proliferated, because a large portion of the population was living in the frontier zone, and participated (or was forced to participate) in the network of the information flow. A quantitative analysis of sixteenth-century to seventeenth-century Hungarian ciphers (300 cipher keys and 1,600 partly or entirely enciphered letters) reveals that besides the dominance of diplomatic use of cryptography, there were many examples of ŸprivateŒ applications too. This book reconstructs the main reasons and goals why historical actors chose to use ciphers in a diplomatic letter, a military order, a diary or a private letter, what they decided to encrypt, and how they perceived the dangers threatening their messages.
A large number of enciphered documents survived from early modern Hungary. This area was a particularly fertile territory where cryptographic methods proliferated, because a large portion of the population was living in the frontier zone, and participated (or was forced to participate) in the network of the information flow. A quantitative analysis of sixteenth-century to seventeenth-century Hungarian ciphers (300 cipher keys and 1,600 partly or entirely enciphered letters) reveals that besides the dominance of diplomatic use of cryptography, there were many examples of “private” applications too. This book reconstructs the main reasons and goals why historical actors chose to use ciphers in a diplomatic letter, a military order, a diary or a private letter, what they decided to encrypt, and how they perceived the dangers threatening their messages.
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Coding theory and cryptology
Cryptography
Early modern history
Europe
HISTORY
History of science
Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects
Research and information: general
Social history
TableOfContents Cover Title Page, Copyright Contents Abbreviations Note on terminology Note on names 1. Introduction 2. Uncovered fields in the research literature 3. Secret writings and attitudes - research questions 4. Theory and practice of cryptography in early modern Europe 5. Ciphers in Hungary: the source material 6. Ciphers in action 7. Ways of knowledge transfer 8. Scenes of secrecy 9. Summary 10. Appendix Acknowledgements Earlier publications Bibliography Index
Title Real Life Cryptology
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