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A look at the world of codes includes a history of how they have affected the world, from the World Wars to the death of Mary, Queen of Scots, and also looks at what the future holds for the field of cryptography.

"The book is designed to be accessible to motivated IT professionals who want to learn more about the specific attacks covered. In particular, every effort has been made to keep the chapters independent, so if someone is interested in has function cryptanalysis or RSA timing attacks, they do not necessarily need to study all of the previous material in the text. This would be particularly valuable to working professionals who might want to use the...

The U.S. government accuses a company of treason for selling an advanced computer chip to China. The company denies the charge, an expert testifies the chip is beyond anyone's ability to make and the government, which claims to possess the chip, refuses to show it. A spoof on science and the law.

How can messages be transmitted secretly? How can one guarantee that the message arrives safely in the right hands exactly as it was transmitted? Cryptology, the art and science of 'secret writing', provides ideal methods to solve these problems of data security. Technological advances have stimulated interest in the study of cyptology. Of course, computers can break cryptosystems more efficiently than humans can. Computers allow complex and sophisticated...

Telecommunication has never been perfectly secure, as the Cold War culture of wiretaps and international spying taught us. Yet many of us still take our privacy for granted, even as we become more reliant than ever on telephones, computer networks, and electronic transactions of all kinds. So many of our relationships now use telecommunication as the primary mode of communication that the security of these transactions has become a source of wide...

Blockchain technology enables the creation of decentralized currencies, decentralized applications powered by smart contracts, self-executing digital agreements, and intelligent assets that can be controlled over the Internet. Blockchains also enable the development of new governance systems with more democratic or participatory decision-making, and decentralized (autonomous) organizations that can operate over a network of computers without any human...