Code Breaking A History and Explanation
by Kippenhahn, Rudolph; Osers, EwaldEdition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2012-12-04
Publisher(s): Harry N. Abrams
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Summary
Featuring Over 100 Black-and-White and 4 Color Illustrations
Author Biography
Rudolf Kippenhahn is the award-winning author of One Hundred Billion Suns and the former director of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Munich. For over a decade, he was a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Gttingen.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. 11 |
| Preface to the Revised Edition | p. 13 |
| Secret Writing in War and Peace | p. 15 |
| Radio operator Klausen transmits to Moscow | p. 16 |
| The secret of the wax tablets | p. 21 |
| The secret message to Count Sandorf | p. 22 |
| How Mary, Queen of Scots, was betrayed | p. 24 |
| The riddle of the Man in the Iron Mask | p. 26 |
| Thomas Jefferson's wheel | p. 28 |
| Signs on gravestones and walls | p. 29 |
| The art of encoding | p. 31 |
| Hidden Messages and Codebooks | p. 34 |
| The explosive message in a harmless text | p. 34 |
| Shakespeare as a matchmaker | p. 39 |
| Playing dice in the air-raid shelter | p. 41 |
| The hidden message in the account number | p. 43 |
| Every book is unique | p. 45 |
| From jargon to codebook | p. 46 |
| The codebook of the Pope | p. 49 |
| The living codebooks | p. 51 |
| Codebooks in World War I | p. 58 |
| The Magdeburg runs aground | p. 58 |
| The signal book of the Magdeburg in Room 40 | p. 60 |
| How was the United States to be kept out of the war? | p. 63 |
| The Zimmermann telegram | p. 65 |
| The telegram is decoded | p. 66 |
| He Came, He Saw, He Encoded | p. 73 |
| The secret writing of Julius Caesar | p. 73 |
| A Caesar with a mnemonic | p. 78 |
| The laws of shuffling | p. 80 |
| Permutations | p. 81 |
| The universal library | p. 85 |
| A superfluous machine | p. 86 |
| How a Monalphabetic Code is Cracked | p. 90 |
| Edgar Allan Poe decodes to order | p. 90 |
| Sherlock Holmes and the Dancing Men | p. 93 |
| The frequent e and the infrequent q | p. 95 |
| A secret text is decoded | p. 96 |
| The foundings of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung | p. 99 |
| The deceitfulness of tapeworms | p. 101 |
| Disguised frequencies | p. 105 |
| Unfair play with Playfair | p. 107 |
| Playfair in World War II | p. 110 |
| Caesars in Rank and File | p. 114 |
| The abbot who was not entirely trustworthy | p. 114 |
| Blaise de Vigenère's tableau | p. 117 |
| Blurred frequencies | p. 119 |
| Decoding with a sledgehammer | p. 120 |
| How a Vigenère cipher is cracked | p. 121 |
| The rhythm of the keyword | p. 124 |
| Keywords Without End | p. 129 |
| Carl Sagan's Contact as a code worm | p. 129 |
| It need not always be a Caesar | p. 131 |
| Polybius's table | p. 133 |
| Encoding with a number worm | p. 134 |
| Chance has no memory | p. 136 |
| Chance artificially produced | p. 139 |
| Key worms in the telephone book | p. 143 |
| Shuffled Texts | p. 145 |
| Anagrams | p. 145 |
| Shuffled text against shuffled alphabet | p. 146 |
| The template of the Austrian colonel | p. 147 |
| Transposition with keyword | p. 150 |
| Polybius in World War I | p. 155 |
| From Coding Disk to Enigma | p. 159 |
| The invention of the wheel | p. 160 |
| Three inventors-but only one became rich | p. 162 |
| The curse of the reflecting cylinder | p. 169 |
| The radio signal without L | p. 170 |
| Hitler's Enigma | p. 172 |
| Enigma's Secret is Unveiled | p. 178 |
| Wanted: young mathematicians with an interest in cryptology | p. 179 |
| The first six letters of the Enigma signals | p. 180 |
| The German spy and the murdered chief of staff | p. 181 |
| A bombe against Enigma | p. 182 |
| Three mathematicians escape | p. 184 |
| Rejewski's last decoding | p. 187 |
| The Bletchley Park crowd | p. 188 |
| The tragic story of Alan Turing | p. 192 |
| The spy to whom Hitler disclosed his secrets | p. 194 |
| Ultra's successful advance | p. 196 |
| The Battle of the Atlantic | p. 198 |
| Japanese radio signals from burning Berlin | p. 200 |
| The Arrival of the Computer | p. 203 |
| Other numerical systems | p. 204 |
| Mathematics in a two-finger world | p. 206 |
| Ciphers in the Telex system | p. 207 |
| DES, the American standard system | p. 210 |
| Encryption and authority | p. 211 |
| Encryption Quite Publicly | p. 216 |
| A short lesson on keys | p. 217 |
| The recipe for asymmetrical encryption | p. 223 |
| Mr. White encodes, Mrs. Black decodes | p. 225 |
| Numbers that cannot be divided | p. 228 |
| Sieved numbers | p. 230 |
| What still awaits exploration | p. 233 |
| Prime number encryption | p. 234 |
| Asymmetrical but fast | p. 237 |
| Smart Cards, One-Way Functions, and Mousetraps | p. 240 |
| Who am I? | p. 241 |
| The plastic card | p. 244 |
| The secret number: a simple version | p. 245 |
| Encoded PINs | p. 246 |
| Mathematical mousetraps | p. 249 |
| My bank account is protected by a one-way function | p. 250 |
| The computer in the cash card | p. 251 |
| The plastic card as wallet | p. 253 |
| Electronic signatures | p. 261 |
| Electronic IDs | p. 263 |
| Connected to the Whole World | p. 267 |
| How do I access the Internet? | p. 269 |
| Online banking | p. 270 |
| My brush with identity theft | p. 272 |
| Using your mobile phone against internet pirates | p. 274 |
| The homemade TAN | p. 274 |
| On Dangerous Ground | p. 276 |
| The one-way function | p. 276 |
| The digital proposal | p. 277 |
| How can I prove that I am me? | p. 279 |
| How do I obtain a certificate and what do I do with it? | p. 279 |
| A homemade encrypting machine | p. 283 |
| Your computer as Enigma | p. 286 |
| How the three magic key numbers are determined | p. 291 |
| Further Reading | p. 295 |
| Index | p. 297 |
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