Elementary Cryptanalysis: A Mathematical Approach (Mathematical Association of America Textbooks)

Elementary Cryptanalysis: A Mathematical Approach (Mathematical Association of America Textbooks) Review

This book is truly a classic in basic cryptanalysis, still one of the best introductions to cryptography available forty years after it was first published. I am currently teaching a course in encryption and data compression and read it
to see if I could find any new ideas. In preparation for the course, I had looked over several potential textbooks for the encryption section, so thought I had all of the basics down. Therefore, I really didn't expect to find anything new in this book.
That expectation was incorrect, I found three additional ideas that I will incorporate into my course. The ideas are easy to understand, yet effective in complicating the writing of computer programs to decrypt messages. Since a great deal of the activities in the class is writing programs, this will increase the amount of fun I will have in challenging the thought processes and coding skills of the students.
If you are interested in learning the basics of encryption and decryption, this book is one of the very best places to start.

Elementary Cryptanalysis: A Mathematical Approach (Mathematical Association of America Textbooks) Overview

Most people acquainted with cryptology, either through sensational cloak-and-dagger stories or through newspaper cryptograms, are not aware that many aspects of this art may be treated systematically, by means of some fundamental mathematical concepts and methods.

In this book, Sinkov gives us the mathematical side of elementary cryptography, the single and multiple replacement functions, transpositions, and the like used to encode messages, and how to crack such ciphers. He also shows how the code breaker uses statistical and other regularities of language to deduce the coding and decoding functions.

Also included are BASIC programs developed by Paul L. Irwin for use in his course based on this book.

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