Nevertheless, the cover hopefully projects the message to read Computer Security and Cryptography.Ĭopyright # 2007 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. It is technically defective in several aspects (i) fewer than 26 letters in each row are displayed and (ii) repeated letters occur in the rows containing the word CRYPTOGRAPHY and my name. State Department’s Black Chamber in which American cryptanalysis originated in the early part of the 20th-century. The cover is a modiﬁed set of 17 cipher alphabets the black background color is symbolic of the U.S. Rotor machines introduced in the 20th-century provided mechanical means for implementing and speeding up polyalphabetic substitution. Blaise de Vigene`re’s book A Treatise on Secret Writing published in the sixteenth century contains the basic Vigene`re tableux, specifying the ciphertext in polyalphabetic substitution. In the ﬁfteenth century, cryptography became more sophisticated and cryptographers proposed using multiple cipher alphabets, a process referred to as polyalphabetic substitution. , Z, a cipher alphabet is a permutation or rearrangement of the 26 letters.

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KONHEIMĪbout the Cover: The term cipher alphabet is used when referring to a monoalphabetic substitution. COMPUTER SECURITY AND CRYPTOGRAPHY ALAN G.

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