Lennon, Brian
Passwords: Philology, Security, Authentication
- ISBN 13:
- 9780674980761
- author:
- Lennon, Brian
- format:
- HardBack
- publisher:
- Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard Universi
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2018
- Pages:
- 232
- Dimensions:
- 24.13 x 16 x 2.29 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Computers, Computer Science, Natural Language Processing
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Cryptology and philology are typically seen as separate domains, but Brian Lennon argues that they should be viewed as contiguous. He contends that computing's humanistic applications are just as historically important as its mathematical and technical ones. Lennon's history explores the intersection of cryptology and philology in various areas, including statistical analysis of text, mechanized literary analysis, code-breaking, machine translation, and digital humanities. The modern digital password is a key example of this convergence, where computational methods are used to break open coded text. This book examines how the same practices that flourish in literary study also appear in conditions of war, highlighting the persistence of cryptology and philology in an artifact of computing - passwords - that we use every day.
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