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]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.