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1985 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

The History of Book Ciphers

verfasst von : Albert C. Leighton, Stephen M. Matyas

Erschienen in: Advances in Cryptology

Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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You can do a lot with a book, besides read it! In fact, we know that by 1526 — some 70 years after Gutenberg printed his first Bible — at least one of out forebears, Jacobus Silvestri, was thinking of how a book might be used for cryptographic purposes. Silverstri wrote of a sort of code book, or dictionary, which he recommended as a means to encipher written communications. For Silvestri, we can trace the development of book ciphers over a period of at least 400 years.

Metadaten
Titel
The History of Book Ciphers
verfasst von
Albert C. Leighton
Stephen M. Matyas
Copyright-Jahr
1985
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-39568-7_11

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