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The Mathematics of Secrets takes readers on a fascinating tour of the mathematics behind cryptography--the science of sending secret messages. Most books about cryptography are organized historically, or around how codes and ciphers have been used, such as in government and military intelligence or bank transactions. Joshua Holden instead shows how

Table of Contents:
Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction to Ciphers and Substitution 1 1.1 Alice and Bob and Carl and Julius: Terminology and Caesar Cipher 1 1.2 The Key to the Matter: Generalizing the Caesar Cipher 4 1.3 Multiplicative Ciphers 6 1.4 Affine Ciphers 15 1.5 Attack at Dawn: Cryptanalysis of Sample Substitution Ciphers 18 1.6 Just to Get Up That Hill: Polygraphic Substitution Ciphers 20 1.7 Known-Plaintext Attacks 25 1.8 Looking Forward 26 Polyalphabetic Substitution Ciphers 29 2.1 Homophonic Ciphers 29 2.2 Coincidence or Conspiracy? 31 2.3 Alberti Ciphers 36 2.4 It's Hip to Be Square: Tabula Recta or Vigenere Square Ciphers 39 2.5 How Many Is Many? Determining the Number of Alphabets 43 2.6 Superman Is Staying for Dinner: Superimposition and Reduction 52 2.7 Products of Polyalphabetic Ciphers 55 2.8 Pinwheel Machines and Rotor Machines 58 2.9 Looking Forward 73 Transposition Ciphers 75 3.1 This Is Sparta! The Scytale 75 3.2 Rails and Routes: Geometric Transposition Ciphers 78 3.3 Permutations and Permutation Ciphers 81 3.4 Permutation Products 86 3.5 Keyed Columnar Transposition Ciphers 91 Sidebar 3.1 Functional Nihilism 94 3.6 Determining the Width of the Rectangle 97 3.7 Anagramming 101 Sidebar 3.2 But When You Talk about Disruption 104 3.8 Looking Forward 106 Ciphers and Computers 109 4.1 Bringing Home the Bacon: Polyliteral Ciphers and Binary Numerals 109 4.2 Fractionating Ciphers 115 4.3 How to Design a Digital Cipher: SP-Networks and Feistel Networks 119 Sidebar 4.1 Digitizing Plaintext 125 4.4 The Data Encryption Standard 130 4.5 The Advanced Encryption Standard 135 4.6 Looking Forward 143 Stream Ciphers 145 5.1 Running-Key Ciphers 145 Sidebar 5.1 We Have All Been Here Before 150 5.2 One-Time Pads 153 5.3 Baby You Can Drive My Car: Autokey Ciphers 157 5.4 Linear Feedback Shift Registers 167 5.5 Adding Nonlinearity to LFSRs 174 5.6 Looking Forward 178 Ciphers Involving Exponentiation 182 6.1 Encrypting Using Exponentiation 182 6.2 Fermat's Little Theorem 183 6.3 Decrypting Using Exponentiation 186 6.4 The Discrete Logarithm Problem 188 6.5 Composite Moduli 190 6.6 The Euler Phi Function 192 6.7 Decryption with Composite Moduli 195 Sidebar 6.1 Fee-fi-fo-fum 197 6.8 Looking Forward 199 Public-Key Ciphers 201 7.1 Right out in Public: The Idea of Public-Key Ciphers 201 7.2 Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement 207 7.3 Asymmetric-Key Cryptography 213 7.4 RSA 216 7.5 Priming the Pump: Primality Testing 222 7.6 Why is RSA a (Good) Public-Key System? 226 7.7 Cryptanalysis of RSA 229 7.8 Looking Forward 233 Appendix A The Secret History of Public-Key Cryptography 235 Other Public-Key Systems 241 8.1 The Three-Pass Protocol 241 8.2 ElGamal 247 8.3 Elliptic Curve Cryptography 251 8.4 Digital Signatures 265 8.5 Looking Forward 271 The Future of Cryptography 276 9.1 Quantum Computing 276 9.2 Postquantum Cryptography 281 9.3 Quantum Cryptography 292 9.4 Looking Forward 301 List of Symbols 303 Notes 305 Suggestions for Further Reading 345 Bibliography 349 Index 367

About the Author :
Joshua Holden is professor of mathematics at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

Review :
"A fascinating tour of the mathematics behind cryptography, showing how its principles underpin the ways that different codes and ciphers operate... While it's all about maths, [The Mathematics of Secrets] is accessible--basic high school algebra is all that's needed to understand and enjoy it."--Cosmos Magazine "For anyone with an interest in cryptography."--Noel-Ann Bradshaw, Times Higher Education "Any book on cryptography written for a more-or-less lay audience must inevitably face comparisons to The Code Book ... by Simon Singh... The Mathematics of Secrets is tilted (and indeed titled) more towards a fuller explanation of the mathematical techniques underlying the various ciphers... [F]or anyone who wants to go a bit deeper than Simon Singh took them."--Paul Taylor, Aperiodical


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780691141756
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 392
  • Sub Title: Cryptography from Caesar Ciphers to Digital Encryption
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0691141754
  • Publisher Date: 14 Feb 2017
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 680 gr


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