| The Manga Guide to Cryptography (No Starch Press) |
| Monday, 27 August 2018 | |||
This book turns the art of encryption and decryption into plain, comic-illustrated, English. Authors Masaaki Mitani and Shinichi Satou show Inspector Jun Meguro on a quest to bring a cipher-wielding thief to justice that also illustrates how cryptographic ciphers work. Illustrated throughout with Japanese manga, the book covers cryptography topics such as classic substitution, polyalphabetic, and transposition ciphers; symmetric-key algorithms like block and DES (Data Encryption Standard) ciphers; and how to use public key encryption technology. It also explores practical applications of encryption such as digital signatures, password security, and identity fraud counter-measures.
Author: Masaaki Mitani and Shinichi Satou
Part of the "The Manga Guide to" series, this book follows the set format of lots of comic strip pictures with the hero and heroine going through adventures and encounters, explaining ideas along the way. See our review of The Manga Guide to Databases in which Mike James awards a rating of 4 out of 5. For more Book Watch just click. Book Watch is I Programmer's listing of new books and is compiled using publishers' publicity material. It is not to be read as a review where we provide an independent assessment. Some, but by no means all, of the books in Book Watch are eventually reviewed. To have new titles included in Book Watch contact BookWatch@i-programmer.info Follow @bookwatchiprog on Twitter or subscribe to I Programmer's Books RSS feed for each day's new addition to Book Watch and for new reviews.
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