Disappearing cryptography : being and nothingness on the Net / Peter Wayner.
By: Wayner, Peter
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Material type: 
BookPublisher: Boston : AP Professional, 1996Description: xi, 295 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0127386718 .Subject(s): Computer networks -- Security measures | Cryptography | InternetDDC classification: 005.82 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 005.82 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00015026 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A collection of mathematical tricks and computational sleights of hand that explore the very foundations of information. Each chapter is split into three sections. The text features visual stenography and covers textual cryptoanalysis.
Bibliography: (pages 279-289) and index.
Framing information -- Encryption -- Error correction -- Secret sharing -- Compression -- Basic mimicry -- Grammars and mimicry -- Turing and reverse -- Life in the noise -- Anonymous remailers -- Secret broadcasts -- Coda.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction
- What Is Information?
- How Is It Transmitted?
- Where Can It Go?
- Basic Encryption
- Secret Sharing
- Error-Correcting Codes
- Hiding Information in the Noise
- Hiding Information in Text
- Reversible Machines