Brief History of Cryptology and Cryptographic Algorithms

• Introduction: A Revolutionary Cipher.- Cryptology Before 1500: A Bit of Magic.- The Black Chambers: 1500 – 1776.- Crypto goes to War: 1861 – 1865.- Crypto and the War to End All Wars: 1914 – 1917.- The Interwar Period: 1919 – 1939.- The Coming of the Machines: 1918 – 1945.- The Machines Take Over: Computer Cryptography.- Alice and Bob and Whit and Martin: Public Key Crypto.

From the reviews: "The primary value of the work is for those interested in the development of DES and AES, or for those working on the key exchange issue, which lies at the heart of the RSA algorithm. It will also be useful for readers who might want to use it as a text in computer security courses, especially since that is how the author intended it in the first place." (G. Mick Smith, Computer Reviews, March, 2014)