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BL
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853939
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| Main Entry
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Sweigart, Al
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| Title & Author
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Cracking codes with Python : : an introduction to building and breaking ciphers /\ by Al Sweigart.
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| Publication Statement
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San Francisco :: No Starch Press, Inc.,, [2018]
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, ©2018
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| Page. NO
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1 online resource (xxviii, 387 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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1593278691
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: 9781593278694
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1593278225
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9781593278229
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| Notes
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Includes index.
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| Contents
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Making paper cryptography tools -- Installing Python -- Programming in the interactive shell -- Strings and writing programs -- The reverse cipher -- The Caesar Cipher -- Hacking the Caesar Cipher with the brute-force technique -- Encrypting with the transposition cipher -- Decrypting with the transposition cipher -- Programming a program to test your program -- Encrypting and decrypting files -- Detecting English programmatically -- Hacking the transposition cipher -- Making a modular arithmetic module for the multiplicative and affine ciphers -- Programming the affine cipher -- Hacking the affine cipher -- The simple substitution cipher -- Hacking the simple substitution cipher -- Programming the vigenere cipher -- Frequency analysis -- Hacking the vigenere cipher -- The one-time pad cipher -- Finding prime numbers -- Generating keys for the RSA cipher -- Public key cryptography and programming the RSA cipher.
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| Abstract
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"Presents a crash course in Python programming, followed by instructions for making, testing, and hacking classic cipher programs, from the Caesar cipher to public key cryptography and the RSA cipher"--
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Computer security.
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Data encryption (Computer science)
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Hacking.
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Python (Computer program language)
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Computer security.
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COMPUTERS-- Programming Languages-- Python.
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COMPUTERS-- Security-- Cryptography.
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Data encryption (Computer science)
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Hacking.
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Python (Computer program language)
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| Dewey Classification
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005.8/7
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| LC Classification
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QA76.9.A25S9317 2018
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