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A codebook is a type of document used for gathering and storing cryptography codes. Originally, codebooks were often literally books, but today "codebook" is a byword for the complete record of a series of codes, regardless of physical format.
In cryptography, a codebook is a document used for implementing a code. A codebook contains a lookup table for coding and decoding; each word or phrase has one or more strings which replace it. To decipher messages written in code, corresponding copies of the codebook must be available at either end. The distribution and physical security of codebooks presents a special difficulty in the use of codes compared to the secret information used in ciphers, the key, which is typically much shorter.
The United States National Security Agency documents sometimes use codebook to refer to block ciphers; compare their use of combiner-type algorithm to refer to stream ciphers.
Codebooks come in two forms, one-part or two-part:
The earliest known use of a codebook system was by Gabriele de Lavinde in 1379 working for the Antipope Clement VII.[1]
Two-part codebooks go back as least as far as Antoine Rossignol in the 1800s.[1]
From the 15th century until the middle of the 19th century, nomenclators (named after nomenclator) were the most used cryptographic method.[2]
Codebooks with superencryption were the most used cryptographic method of World War I.[1]
The JN-25 code used in World War II used a codebook of 30,000 code groups superencrypted with 30,000 random additives.
The book used in a book cipher or the book used in a running key cipher can be any book shared by sender and receiver and is different from a cryptographic codebook.
In social sciences, a codebook is a document containing a list of the codes used in a set of data to refer to variables and their values, for example locations, occupations, or clinical diagnoses.
Codebooks were also used in 19th- and 20th-century commercial codes for the non-cryptographic purpose of data compression.
Codebooks are used in relation to precoding and beamforming in mobile networks such as 5G and LTE. The usage is standardized by 3GPP, for example in the document TS 38.331, NR; Radio Resource Control (RRC); Protocol specification.
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