In code. A mathematical journey.

MaRDI QIDQ2734837zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Sarah Flannery, David Flannery

Publication date 26 August 2001

zbMATH Keywords

biographycryptography

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Problem books (00A07) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) Cryptography (94A60)

Review text

When I first saw this book I thought that this is the biography of the young Irish woman who was in the press because of her crypto-system that was supposed to be superior to RSA but then turned out to be completely insecure. In other words, a book I would not read. However, the book surprised my quite a bit. It is much more than a biography. Apart from telling the story of how Sarah Flannery got involved in cryptography and made it into all newspapers, the book is full of little math problems that let the reader get first-hands experience why mathematics is a fun subject. In the same way it introduces the reader to the basics of cryptography. While you, the typical user of this review-database, probably find all these problems trivial, you might wanna give this book to someone as a present.

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• Basing cryptographic protocols on tamper-evident seals
• Efficient approximate verification of B and Z models via symmetry markers

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