Cracking codes with Python : an introduction to building and breaking ciphers / by Al Sweigart.
"Presents a crash course in Python programming, followed by instructions for making, testing, and hacking classic cipher programs, from the Caesar cipher to public key cryptography and the RSA cipher"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781593278229
- ISBN: 1593278225
- Physical Description: xxviii, 387 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: San Francisco : No Starch Press, [2018]
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Homer Public Library | YA 005.87 SWE (Text) | 000160107 | Teen Corner -- Nonfiction | Available | - |