What Is Computer Science?: An Information Security Perspective - Softcover

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Foundations of Computer Science

Compressing and Correcting Digital Media

Writing and Comparing Algorithms

Playing Hide-and-Seek with Virus Scanners

How Long is a Piece of String?

Demystifying Web-Search: The Mathematics of PageRank

Part II: Examples from Information Security

Using Short Programs to Make and Break Historical Ciphers

Generation and Testing of Random Numbers

Safety in Numbers: Modern Cryptography from Ancient Arithmetic

Hiding a Needle in a Haystack: Concealed Messages

Picking Digital Pockets

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