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The Spartan Scytale and Developments in Ancient and Modern Cryptography

Autor Dr Martine Diepenbroek
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 dec 2023
This book offers a comprehensive review and reassessment of the classical sources describing the cryptographic Spartan device known as the scytale. Challenging the view promoted by modern historians of cryptography which look at the scytale as a simple and impractical 'stick', Diepenbroek argues for the scytale's deserved status as a vehicle for secret communication in the ancient world. By way of comparison, Diepenbroek demonstrates that the cryptographic principles employed in the Spartan scytale show an encryption and coding system that is no less complex than some 20th-century transposition ciphers. The result is that, contrary to the accepted point of view, scytale encryption is as complex and secure as other known ancient ciphers. Drawing on salient comparisons with a selection of modern transposition ciphers (and their historical predecessors), the reader is provided with a detailed overview and analysis of the surviving classical sources that similarly reveal the potential of the scytale as an actual cryptographic and steganographic tool in ancient Sparta in order to illustrate the relative sophistication of the Spartan scytale as a practical device for secret communication. This helps to establish the conceptual basis that the scytale would, in theory, have offered its ancient users a secure method for secret communication over long distances.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350281325
ISBN-10: 1350281328
Pagini: 264
Ilustrații: 31 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Two appendices provide an overview of all Greek and Latin sources on cryptography and steganography in the Greco-Roman world, and an overview of medieval, renaissance and early modern cryptography

Notă biografică

Martine Diepenbroek is a Dutch Classicist and Ancient Historian who finished her PhD on the topic of Ancient Cryptography at the University of Bristol, UK, in 2021. As a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, she is currently working on a number of publications based on her doctoral research.

Cuprins

List of Figures List of Tables PrefaceAcknowledgements Notes on texts and translations IntroductionChapter 1: Structure of ancient Greek armies and military communication Chapter 2: Sparta and secrecy in non-Spartan sources Chapter 3: The scytale Chapter 4: Cryptography and steganography in Aeneas Tacticus' How to Survive Under Siege Chapter 5: Roman views towards the Spartan scytale Chapter 6: The development of the principle of the transposition cipher system of the scytale in ciphers from the Renaissance to the 21st centuryConclusion NotesBibliography Appendices