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Real Life Cryptology : Ciphers and Secrets in Early Modern Hungary /
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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2018]
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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