Chapter 7: Codes and Cryptography #

Overview #

Topcis covered in “Die Kunst der Darstellung”: information and data - what is a code - basic codes - number and text formats for representing complex information - the genetic code - information theory - entropy -compression - Huffman code - steganography - watermarks  - compression and the DNA - traditional ciphers - cryptographic methods based on keys - the one time pad - public key exchange - trap door functions - public key cryptography - man in the middle attack - certificates - olfactory sense - chemical mimikry.

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The following illustrations from the book Inside the Computer’s Brain (Dem Computer ins Hirn geschaut) are available for download and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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