Real Life Cryptology : Ciphers and Secrets in Early Modern Hungary /

A large number of enciphered documents survived from early modern Hungary. This area was a particularly fertile territory where cryptographic methods proliferated, because a large portion of the population was living in the frontier zone, and participated (or was forced to participate) in the networ...

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Main Author: Láng, Benedek, 1974- (Author, Translator)
Other Authors: Király, Teodóra (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Hungarian
Published: Amsterdam [Netherlands] : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Uncovered fields in the research literature -- Secret writings and attitudes - research questions -- theory and practice of cryptography in early modern Europe -- Ciphers in Hungary: the source material -- Ciphers in action -- Ways of knowledge transfer -- Scenes of secrecy. 
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520 |a A large number of enciphered documents survived from early modern Hungary. This area was a particularly fertile territory where cryptographic methods proliferated, because a large portion of the population was living in the frontier zone, and participated (or was forced to participate) in the network of the information flow. A quantitative analysis of sixteenth-century to seventeenth-century Hungarian ciphers (300 cipher keys and 1,600 partly or entirely enciphered letters) reveals that besides the dominance of diplomatic use of cryptography, there were many examples of private applications too. This book reconstructs the main reasons and goals why historical actors chose to use ciphers in a diplomatic letter, a military order, a diary or a private letter, what they decided to encrypt, and how they perceived the dangers threatening their messages. 
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