Code Breaking A History and Explanation

by Kippenhahn, Rudolph; Osers, Ewald

• ISBN13: 9781468300741
• ISBN10: 1468300741
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-12-04
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Summary

Featuring Over 100 Black-and-White and 4 Color Illustrations

Author Biography

Rudolf Kippenhahn is the award-winning author of One Hundred Billion Suns and the former director of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Munich. For over a decade, he was a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Gttingen.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 11
Preface to the Revised Edition	p. 13
Secret Writing in War and Peace	p. 15
Radio operator Klausen transmits to Moscow	p. 16
The secret of the wax tablets	p. 21
The secret message to Count Sandorf	p. 22
How Mary, Queen of Scots, was betrayed	p. 24
The riddle of the Man in the Iron Mask	p. 26
Thomas Jefferson's wheel	p. 28
Signs on gravestones and walls	p. 29
The art of encoding	p. 31
Hidden Messages and Codebooks	p. 34
The explosive message in a harmless text	p. 34
Shakespeare as a matchmaker	p. 39
Playing dice in the air-raid shelter	p. 41
The hidden message in the account number	p. 43
Every book is unique	p. 45
From jargon to codebook	p. 46
The codebook of the Pope	p. 49
The living codebooks	p. 51
Codebooks in World War I	p. 58
The Magdeburg runs aground	p. 58
The signal book of the Magdeburg in Room 40	p. 60
How was the United States to be kept out of the war?	p. 63
The Zimmermann telegram	p. 65
The telegram is decoded	p. 66
He Came, He Saw, He Encoded	p. 73
The secret writing of Julius Caesar	p. 73
A Caesar with a mnemonic	p. 78
The laws of shuffling	p. 80
Permutations	p. 81
The universal library	p. 85
A superfluous machine	p. 86
How a Monalphabetic Code is Cracked	p. 90
Edgar Allan Poe decodes to order	p. 90
Sherlock Holmes and the Dancing Men	p. 93
The frequent e and the infrequent q	p. 95
A secret text is decoded	p. 96
The foundings of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung	p. 99
The deceitfulness of tapeworms	p. 101
Disguised frequencies	p. 105
Unfair play with Playfair	p. 107
Playfair in World War II	p. 110
Caesars in Rank and File	p. 114
The abbot who was not entirely trustworthy	p. 114
Blaise de Vigenère's tableau	p. 117
Blurred frequencies	p. 119
Decoding with a sledgehammer	p. 120
How a Vigenère cipher is cracked	p. 121
The rhythm of the keyword	p. 124
Keywords Without End	p. 129
Carl Sagan's Contact as a code worm	p. 129
It need not always be a Caesar	p. 131
Polybius's table	p. 133
Encoding with a number worm	p. 134
Chance has no memory	p. 136
Chance artificially produced	p. 139
Key worms in the telephone book	p. 143
Shuffled Texts	p. 145
Anagrams	p. 145
Shuffled text against shuffled alphabet	p. 146
The template of the Austrian colonel	p. 147
Transposition with keyword	p. 150
Polybius in World War I	p. 155
From Coding Disk to Enigma	p. 159
The invention of the wheel	p. 160
Three inventors-but only one became rich	p. 162
The curse of the reflecting cylinder	p. 169
The radio signal without L	p. 170
Hitler's Enigma	p. 172
Enigma's Secret is Unveiled	p. 178
Wanted: young mathematicians with an interest in cryptology	p. 179
The first six letters of the Enigma signals	p. 180
The German spy and the murdered chief of staff	p. 181
A bombe against Enigma	p. 182
Three mathematicians escape	p. 184
Rejewski's last decoding	p. 187
The Bletchley Park crowd	p. 188
The tragic story of Alan Turing	p. 192
The spy to whom Hitler disclosed his secrets	p. 194
Ultra's successful advance	p. 196
The Battle of the Atlantic	p. 198
Japanese radio signals from burning Berlin	p. 200
The Arrival of the Computer	p. 203
Other numerical systems	p. 204
Mathematics in a two-finger world	p. 206
Ciphers in the Telex system	p. 207
DES, the American standard system	p. 210
Encryption and authority	p. 211
Encryption Quite Publicly	p. 216
A short lesson on keys	p. 217
The recipe for asymmetrical encryption	p. 223
Mr. White encodes, Mrs. Black decodes	p. 225
Numbers that cannot be divided	p. 228
Sieved numbers	p. 230
What still awaits exploration	p. 233
Prime number encryption	p. 234
Asymmetrical but fast	p. 237
Smart Cards, One-Way Functions, and Mousetraps	p. 240
Who am I?	p. 241
The plastic card	p. 244
The secret number: a simple version	p. 245
Encoded PINs	p. 246
Mathematical mousetraps	p. 249
My bank account is protected by a one-way function	p. 250
The computer in the cash card	p. 251
The plastic card as wallet	p. 253
Electronic signatures	p. 261
Electronic IDs	p. 263
Connected to the Whole World	p. 267
How do I access the Internet?	p. 269
Online banking	p. 270
My brush with identity theft	p. 272
Using your mobile phone against internet pirates	p. 274
The homemade TAN	p. 274
On Dangerous Ground	p. 276
The one-way function	p. 276
The digital proposal	p. 277
How can I prove that I am me?	p. 279
How do I obtain a certificate and what do I do with it?	p. 279
A homemade encrypting machine	p. 283
Your computer as Enigma	p. 286
How the three magic key numbers are determined	p. 291
Further Reading	p. 295
Index	p. 297
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