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Richard Coyne

Cryptographic City

Decoding the Smart Metropolis

Richard Coyne

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English
MIT Press
13 June 2023
Computer science
Cryptography's essential role in the functioning of the city, viewed against the backdrop of modern digital life.

Cryptography's essential role in the functioning of the city, viewed against the backdrop of modern digital life.

Cryptography is not new to the city; in fact, it is essential to its functioning. For as long as cities have existed, communications have circulated, often in full sight, but with their messages hidden. In Cryptographic City, Richard Coyne explains how cryptography runs deep within the structure of the city. He shows the extent to which cities are built on secrets, their foundations now reinforced by digital encryption and cryptocurrency platforms. He also uses cryptography as a lens through which to inspect smart cities and what they deliver. Coyne sets his investigation into the cryptographic city against the backdrop of the technologies, claims, and challenges of the smart city. Cryptography provides the means by which communications within and between citizens and devices are kept secure. Coyne shows how all of the smart city innovations-from smart toasters to public transportation networks-are enabled by secure financial transactions, data flows, media streaming, and communications made possible by encryption. Without encryption, he says, communications between people and digital devices would be exposed for anyone to see, hack, and misdirect. He explains the relevant technicalities of cryptography and describes the practical difference it makes to frame cities as cryptographic. Interwoven throughout the book are autobiographical anecdotes, insights from Coyne's teaching practice, and historical reports, making it accessible to the general reader.
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Imprint:   MIT Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm, 
Weight:   369g
ISBN:   9780262545679
ISBN 10:   0262545675
Pages:   280
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Urban Cryptographer 1 Part I: The Case for an Urban Cryptology 17 1 Written in Stone 19 2 Write Me a City 39 3 Place Is the Code 63 Part II: Urban Combinatorics 79 4 Urban Multiplicity 81 5 A Thousand Insides 101 6 The Dissimulated City 117 Part III: Crypto-Technics 127 7 Writing the Block 129 8 Bitcoin Cities 139 9 Images in the City 153 10 Hashing the City 175 Part IV: Cryptography at the Limits 189 11 Cyberattacks 191 12 Hidden Measures 207 13 Hiding in the Multiverse 225 14 Closure: The Urban Cryptanalyst 249 Notes 253 Bibliography 283 Index 311

Richard Coyne is Professor and Chair of Architectural Computing at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Mood and Mobility, The Tuning of Place, Cornucopia Limited, and Technoromanticism (all MIT Press).

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