Cryptographic Crimes: The Use of Cryptography in Real and Fictional Crimes

ISBN-13: 9781433135217 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 132 str.

Marcel Danesi

Opis

This book examines the use of cryptography in both real and fictional crimes - a topic that is rarely broached. It discusses famous crimes, such as that of the Zodiac Killer, that revolve around cryptic messages and current uses of encryption that make solving cases harder and harder.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations - Preface - The Origins and Uses of Cryptography - Cryptography in Crime Fiction - Cryptography in Real Crimes - Crime, Computers, and the Internet - Secret Communications in Organized Crime - Cryptography and Crime - Index.

O autorze

Marcel Danesi (Ph.D., University of Toronto) has published extensively in semiotics and linguistics, including Signs of Crime (2015), The Dexter Syndrome (2016), and (with M. Arntfield) Murder in Plain English (2017). He is currently full professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto and editor of Semiotica, the major journal in the field of semiotics.