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
Format: eBook
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
ISBN:9789462985544, 9462985545
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Table of Contents:
  • 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