Disappearing Cryptography

Being and Nothingness on the Net

Peter Wayner (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

306 Seiten

1996
Academic Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-12-738671-3 (ISBN)

Infos

A collection of mathematical tricks and computational sleights of hand that explore the very foundations of information. Each chapter is split into three sections. The text features visual stenography and covers textual cryptoanalysis.

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This book deals with how information can disappear so that no one knows of its existence. Convential cryptography merely scambles information into an impenetrable block. This book describes how data can be hidden in the background noise of pictures, sound recording or even bad poetry.Disappearing Cryptography is a collection of mathematical tricks and computational sleights of hand that explore the very foundations of information. Features: * Visual stenography * Covers textual cryptoanalysis * Discusses how to set up networks with hidden communications

Inhalt

Introduction - what is information?; how is it transmitted?; where can it go?; basic encryption; secret sharing; error-correcting codes; hiding information in the noise; hiding information in text; reversible machines.

Produkt-Details

• Zusatzinfo: Illustrations
• Verlagsort: San Diego
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 187 x 234 mm
• Gewicht: 626 g
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Netzwerke
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Kryptologie
• ISBN-10: 0-12-738671-8 / 0127386718
• ISBN-13: 978-0-12-738671-3 / 9780127386713
• Zustand: Neuware