The Spartan scytale and developments in ancient and modern cryptography /

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Author / Creator:	Diepenbroek, Martine, author.
Imprint:	London ; New York : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. ©2024
Description:	xiii, 243 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Bloomsbury Classical Studies Monographs Bloomsbury classical studies monographs.
Subject:	Cryptography -- Greece -- Sparta (Extinct city) -- History. Cryptography -- History. Ciphers -- History. Military intelligence -- History. Ciphers Cryptography Military intelligence Greece -- Sparta (Extinct city) History
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13316715

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ISBN:	9781350281325 1350281328 9781350281318 135028131X 9781350281288 9781350281295
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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 which see the scytale as a simple 'stick'. Diepenbroek argues for its 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"--
Other form:	Online version: Diepenbroek, Martine. Spartan scytale and developments in ancient and modern cryptography New York : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023 9781350281288

Table of Contents:

Structure of ancient Greek armies and military communication
Sparta and secrecy in non-Spartan sources
The scytale
Cryptography and steganography in Aeneas Tacticus' How to Survive Under Siege
Roman views towards the Spartan scytale
The development of the principle of the transposition cipher system of the scytale in ciphers from the Renaissance to the 21st century
Appendix 1. Terminology concerning cybersecurity and espionage
Appendix 2. Greco-Roman and Medieval sources on the Spartan scytale in alphabetic order per author
Appendix 3: Greco-Roman sources on cryptography and steganography
Appendix 4: Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern sources on cryptography and steganography referring to Greco-Roman sources.

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