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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Láng, Benedek, 1974-
Formato: Electrónico Software eBook
Idioma:Indeterminado
Publicado: Amsterdam University Press 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Note on terminology
  • Note on names
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Uncovered fields in the research literature
  • 3. Secret writings and attitudes - research questions
  • 4. Theory and practice of cryptography in early modern Europe
  • 5. Ciphers in Hungary: the source material
  • 6. Ciphers in action
  • 7. Ways of knowledge transfer
  • 8. Scenes of secrecy
  • 9. Summary
  • 10. Appendix
  • Acknowledgements
  • Earlier publications
  • Bibliography
  • Index