Bibliograph

Codebreaking, a practical guide, Elonka Dunin & Klaus Schmeh

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Codebreaking, a practical guide, Elonka Dunin & Klaus Schmeh

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Codebreaking

Responsibility statement

Elonka Dunin & Klaus Schmeh

Sub title

a practical guide

Summary

Elonka Dunin, codebreaker and an expert on the world's most famous unsolved codes, and Klaus Schmeh, crypto-blogger, describe the best-known traditional encryption techniques along with powerful methods to break them. In this book you can learn about: Beatrix Potter's encrypted dairy, and how to read it. The Zodiac Killer's four encrypted messages and how one of these was broken. How to solve encrypted letters, postcards and diaries with numerous examples provided. How to find free software tools that help you break the majority of pencil-and-paper ciphers. Many famous unsolved encrypted messages, such as the Voynich Manuscript, the final passage on the CIA's Kryptos sculpture, and the remaining cryptograms left by the Zodiac Killer

Table Of Contents

How can I break an encrypted message? And other introductory questions -- The Caesar cipher -- Simple substitution ciphers -- Simple substitution ciphers without spaces between words: Patristocrats -- Simple substitution ciphersin non-English languages -- Homophonic ciphers -- Codes and nomenclators -- Polyaphabetic ciphers -- Complete columnar transposition ciphers -- Incomplete columnar transposition ciphers -- Turning grille transposition ciphers -- Digraph substitution -- Abbreviation ciphers -- Dictionary codes and book ciphers -- Additional encryption methods -- Solving ciphers with hill climbing -- What next?

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