Commentary on Alan M. Turing: The Applications of Probability to Cryptography

Cryptologia

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 191-214

  Zabell, Sandy ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alan Turing; Bayes's theorem; crib; cryptanalysis; deciban; depths; factor theorem; half deciban; I. J. Good; index of coincidence; Jerzy Neyman; letter subtractor cipher; Markov chain; odds; prior probabilities; probability; R. A. Fisher; simple columnar transposition; theory of repeats; Vigen re cipher

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863817768     PISSN: 01611194     EISSN: 15581586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01611194.2012.697811     Document Type: Article

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