Coding Theory and Cryptography
From Enigma and Geheimschreiber to Quantum Theory
1st Edition
Published on 23. November 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
VII, 256 pages
978-3-540-66336-2 (ISBN)
Description
The book contains surveys on the current state and the historical background of cryptography. It will be useful to mathematicians, computer scientists and engineers, as well as historians with an interest in cryptography.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
7 s/w Abbildungen
VII, 256 p. 7 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
411 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-66336-2 (9783540663362)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-59663-6
Schweitzer Classification
Content
Reminiscences and Reflections of a Codebreaker.- FISH and I.- Sturgeon, The FISH BP Never Really Caught.- ENIGMA and PURPLE: How the Allies Broke German and Japanese Codes During the War.- The Geheimschreiber Secret.- The RSA Public Key Cryptosystem.- Number Theory and Cryptography (using Maple).- A Talk on Quantum Cryptography or How Alice Outwits Eve.- The Rigidity Theorems of Hamada and Ohmori, Revisited.- Counting Prime Divisors on Elliptic Curves and Multiplication in Finite Fields.- On Cyclic MDS-Codes.- Computing Roots of Polynomials over Function Fields of Curves.- Remarks on codes from modular curves: MAPLE applications.