CRYPTOGRAPHY AND CRYPTANALYSIS

The art of writing secret messages – intelligible to those who are in possession of the key and unintelligible to all others – has been studied for centuries. The usefulness of such messages, especially in time of war, is obvious; on the other hand, their solution may be a matter of great importance...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published inMathmatical Recreations & Essays pp. 388 - 418
Main Authors Ball, W. W, Coxeter, H.S.M
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Toronto University of Toronto Press 29.05.2015
Subjects
Alphabetic letters
Alphabets
Applied arts
Architecture
Arts
Behavioral sciences
Burial structures
Ciphers
Controlled vocabularies
Cryptanalysis
Cryptography
Crypts
Funerary architecture
Geometric shapes
Geometry
Keywords
Language
Leisure studies
Lexicology
Linguistics
Mathematical intervals
Mathematical objects
Mathematics
Orthographies
Parallelograms
Polygons
Polytopes
Pure mathematics
Recreation
Rectangles
Subject terms
Terminology
Tetragons
Online AccessGet full text
DOI10.3138/9781442656529-017

Cover

More Information
Summary:The art of writing secret messages – intelligible to those who are in possession of the key and unintelligible to all others – has been studied for centuries. The usefulness of such messages, especially in time of war, is obvious; on the other hand, their solution may be a matter of great importance to those from whom the key is concealed. But the romance connected with the subject, the not uncommon desire to discover a secret, and the implied challenge to the ingenuity of all from whom it is hidden have attracted to the subject the attention of many to
DOI:10.3138/9781442656529-017