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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Tác giả chính: Láng, Benedek, 1974- (Tác giả, Thông dịch viên)
Tác giả khác: Király, Teodóra (Thông dịch viên)
Định dạng: Điện tử eBook
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Tiếng Hungary
Được phát hành: Amsterdam [Netherlands] : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]
Loạt:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Tóm tắt: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.
Mô tả sách:Translation of: Titkosírás a kora újkori Magyarországon.
Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
Mô tả vật lý:1 online resource (224 pages): illustrations, facsimiles
Thư mục:Includes bibliographical references and index.
số ISBN:9789048536696
Truy cập:Open Access