Real Life Cryptology

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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Láng, Benedek, 1974- author, translator (author), Király, Teodóra, translator (translator)
Format: Electronic
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Amsterdam University Press 2018
2020
Subjects:
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009431230806719
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.