A Brief History of Cryptology and Cryptographic Algorithms

• Main Author: Dooley, John F. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Computer Science,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Science > History.; Data structures (Computer science).; Computer Science.; History of Computing.; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory.; History of Science.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

The science of cryptology is made up of two halves. Cryptography is the study of how to create secure systems for communications. Cryptanalysis is the study of how to break those systems. The conflict between these two halves of cryptology is the story of secret writing. For over two thousand years...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: A Revolutionary Cipher
• Cryptology Before 1500: A Bit of Magic
• The Black Chambers: 1500  1776
• Crypto goes to War: 1861  1865
• Crypto and the War to End All Wars: 1914  1917
• The Interwar Period: 1919  1939
• The Coming of the Machines: 1918  1945
• The Machines Take Over: Computer Cryptography
• Alice and Bob and Whit and Martin: Public Key Crypto.