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024 _a10.5117/9789462985544
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245 0 _aReal Life Cryptology
260 _bAmsterdam University Press
_c2018
520 _aA large number of enciphered documents survived from early modern Hungary. This area was a particularly fertile territory where cryptographic methods proliferated, because a large portion of the population was living in the frontier zone, and participated (or was forced to participate) in the network of the information flow. A quantitative analysis of sixteenth-century to seventeenth-century Hungarian ciphers (300 cipher keys and 1,600 partly or entirely enciphered letters) reveals that besides the dominance of diplomatic use of cryptography, there were many examples of private applications too. This book reconstructs the main reasons and goals why historical actors chose to use ciphers in a diplomatic letter, a military order, a diary or a private letter, what they decided to encrypt, and how they perceived the dangers threatening their messages.
540 _aCreative Commons
653 _aCryptography
700 1 _aLang, Benedek
856 _uhttps://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/28452/1/1001507.pdf
856 _uhttps://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/28452/1/1001507.pdf
856 _uwww.oapen.org
942 _cE-BOOK
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