Download or read book Decrypted Secrets written by Friedrich L. Bauer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-11-24 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's extensively wired world, cryptology is vital for guarding communication channels, databases, and software from intruders. Increased processing and communications speed, rapidly broadening access and multiplying storage capacity tend to make systems less secure over time, and security becomes a race against the relentless creativity of the unscrupulous. The revised and extended third edition of this classic reference work on cryptology offers a wealth of new technical and biographical details. The book presupposes only elementary mathematical knowledge. Spiced with exciting, amusing, and sometimes personal accounts from the history of cryptology, it will interest general a broad readership.