Real Life Cryptology : Ciphers and Secrets in Early Modern Hungary / Benedek Láng ; translated from Hungarian by Teodóra Király and Benedek Láng.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Hungarian Series: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Amsterdam [Netherlands] : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020Copyright date: ©[2018]Description: 1 online resource (224 pages): illustrations, facsimilesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789048536696
Uniform titles:
  • Titkosírás a kora újkori Magyarországon. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 652/.809439 23
LOC classification:
  • Z103.4.H86 L3613 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Uncovered fields in the research literature -- Secret writings and attitudes - research questions -- theory and practice of cryptography in early modern Europe -- Ciphers in Hungary: the source material -- Ciphers in action -- Ways of knowledge transfer -- Scenes of secrecy.
Summary: A 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.Translation of:: Láng, Benedek, 1974-, Titkosírás a kora újkori Magyarországon., Budapest : Balassi Kiadó, 2015
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Translation of: Titkosírás a kora újkori Magyarországon.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Uncovered fields in the research literature -- Secret writings and attitudes - research questions -- theory and practice of cryptography in early modern Europe -- Ciphers in Hungary: the source material -- Ciphers in action -- Ways of knowledge transfer -- Scenes of secrecy.

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A 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.

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