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Disappearing Cryptography: Being and Nothingness on the Net by Peter Wayner β€” book cover

Disappearing Cryptography: Being and Nothingness on the Net

by Peter Wayner
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Overview

This book is about making information disappear. For some people, this topic is a parlour trick, an amazing intellectual exercise that rattles around the foundations of knowledge. For others, the topic has immense practical importance. An enemy can only control your message if they can find it. If you hide data, you can protect your thoughts from censorship and discovery.

This book deals with how information can disappear so that no one knows of its existence. Convential cryptography merely scambles information into an impenetrable block. This book describes how data can be hidden in the background noise of pictures, sound recording or even bad poetry.Disappearing Cryptography is a collection of mathematical tricks and computational sleights of hand that explore the very foundations of information.

Synopsis

This book is about making information disappear. For some people, this topic is a parlour trick, an amazing intellectual exercise that rattles around the foundations of knowledge. For others, the topic has immense practical importance. An enemy can only control your message if they can find it. If you hide data, you can protect your thoughts from censorship and discovery.

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Book Details

Published
May 1, 1996
Publisher
Elsevier Science & Technology Books
Pages
295
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780127386713

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