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Python for secret agents : analyze, encrypt, and uncover intelligence data using python, the essential tool for all aspiring secret agents /
If you are a Python beginner who is looking to learn the language through interesting projects, this book is for you. A basic knowledge of programming and statistics is beneficial to get the most out of the book.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Birmingham, England :
Packt Publishing Ltd,
2014.
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| Colección: | Community experience distilled.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Our Espionage Toolkit; Getting the tools of the trade
- Python 3.3; Windows secrets; Mac OS X secrets; Getting more tools
- a text editor; Getting other developer tools; Getting a tool to get more Python components; Confirming our tools; How do we stop?; Using the help() system; Mac OS and GNU/Linux secrets; Windows secrets; Using the help mode; Background briefing
- math and numbers; The usual culprits; The ivory tower of numbers; Integer numbers; Rational numbers.
- Floating-point numbersDecimal numbers; Complex numbers; Outside the numbers; Assigning values to variables; Writing scripts and seeing output; Gathering user input; Handling exceptions; Looping and trying again; Handling text and strings; Converting between numbers and strings; Parsing strings; Organizing our software; Working with files and folders; Creating a file; Reading a file; Defining more complex logical conditions; Solving problems
- recovering a lost password; Reading a word corpus; Reading a ZIP archive; Using brute-force search; Summary; Chapter 2: Acquiring Intelligence Data.
- Accessing data from the InternetBackground briefing
- the TCP/IP protocols; Using http.client for HTTP GET; Changing our client information; Using FTP in Python; Downloading a file via FTP; Using our FTP get() function; Using urllib for HTTP, FTP, or file access; Using urllib for FTP access; Using a REST API in Python; Getting simple REST data; Using more complex RESTful queries; Saving our data via JSON; Organizing collections of data; Using a Python list; Using list index operations; Using a Python tuple; Using generator expressions with list-of-tuples; Using a Python dictionary mapping.
- Using the dictionary access methodsTransforming sequences with generator functions; Using the defaultdict and counter mappings; Using a Python set; Using the for statement with a collection; Using Python operators on collections; Solving problems
- currency conversion rates; Summary; Chapter 3: Encoding Secret Messages with Steganography; Background briefing
- handling file formats; Working with the OS filesystem; glob; os; Processing simple text files; Working with ZIP files; Working with JSON files; Working with CSV files; JPEG and PNG graphics
- pixels and metadata.
- Using the Pillow libraryAdding the required supporting libraries; GNU/Linux secrets; Mac OS X secrets; Windows secrets; Installing and confirming Pillow; Decoding and encoding image data; Manipulating images
- resizing and thumbnails; Manipulating images
- cropping; Manipulating images
- enhancing; Manipulating images
- filtering; Manipulating images
- ImageOps; Some approaches to steganography; Getting the red-channel data; Extracting bytes from Unicode characters; Manipulating bits and bytes; Assembling the bits; Encoding the message; Decoding a message; Detecting and preventing tampering.