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Cryptology Through History and Inquiry
Charles F. Rocca Jr.
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Front Matter
Colophon
Introduction
1
Caesar's Shifty Idea
Simple Early Ciphers (and a little math)
Arabic Numerical Ciphers
How Shifty are You?
2
Attacking the Alphabet
Arabic Analysis of the Alphabet
(*)Alberti's Approach
Falconer's Approach
Bringing it all Together
3
Mixing Things Up
Alberti's Great Idea
Variation on a Theme
An Automatic Hit
Stirring Things Up
Presidential Secrets
How Mixed Up Do You Feel?
4
Triumphs of Logic and Statistics
A Simple Solution
A Seventeenth Century Idea
Nineteenth Century Revelations
Do You Feel Logical?
5
(*) An Industrial Revolution
World War I
Perfect Secrecy
Between the Wars
World War II
(*)A Statistical Approach
6
Mathematics to the Rescue
Modular Arithmetic
Affine Ciphers
Hill's Cipher
Decrypting Hill's Cipher
Up Hill struggle?
7
(*) The Modern Age
Symmetric Ciphers
Data Encryption Standard
Advancing Symmetry
Going Public
Asymmetric Ciphers
Public Inquiry?
8
(*) The Future Age
(*)Quantum Ciphers
(*)Lattice Ciphers
(*)Elliptic Ciphers
(*)Homomorphic Ciphers
Back Matter
A
Sage Cell Analysis Utilities
B
Sage Cell Cipher Utilities
C
Blank Tables, Charts, and Images
D
Quotations Appendix
Chapter 1 Quotes:
Chapter 2 Quotes:
Chapter 3 Quotes:
Chapter 6 Quotes:
E
Sample Analysis Appendix
Monoalphabetic Analysis
Transposition Analysis
Vigenère Analysis
Hill's Cipher Analysis (Ciphertext Only)
Hill's Cipher Analysis (Known Plaintext)
F
Solutions to Selected Exercises
G
Glossary
H
GNU Free Documentation License
References
Index
Colophon
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Section
5.1
World War I
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Objectives
ADFGVX
George Zimmermann
American Cipher Chamber