Cracking codes with Python: an introduction to building and breaking ciphers 9781593278694, 1593278691

Learn how to program in Python while making and breaking ciphers--algorithms used to create and send secret messages! A

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Table of contents :
Making paper cryptography tools --
Installing Python --
Programming in the interactive shell --
Strings and writing programs --
The reverse cipher --
The Caesar Cipher --
Hacking the Caesar Cipher with the brute-force technique --
Encrypting with the transposition cipher --
Decrypting with the transposition cipher --
Programming a program to test your program --
Encrypting and decrypting files --
Detecting English programmatically --
Hacking the transposition cipher --
Making a modular arithmetic module for the multiplicative and affine ciphers --
Programming the affine cipher --
Hacking the affine cipher --
The simple substitution cipher --
Hacking the simple substitution cipher --
Programming the vigenere cipher --
Frequency analysis --
Hacking the vigenere cipher --
The one-time pad cipher --
Finding prime numbers --
Generating keys for the RSA cipher --
Public key cryptography and programming the RSA cipher.

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