The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
 

The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

by Simon Singh

In his first book since the bestselling Fermat's Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code, to the Navajo Code Talkers who helped the Allies win World War II, to the incredible (and incredibly simple)... (read more)

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It is rare one comes across a book of this calibre written for lay readers, so very informative and so good in its level of intelligence that borders on testing.

In discussing codes he goes into history and discusses various codes used historically until one reaches Enigma and realises why it was so prized as to have British intelligence and government risk loss of many lives rather than allow the enemy to suspect that they had in fact cracked it or obtained a key, a variation of...

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  • Dilip S Sriniv

    dilip s sriniv said:

    hai kums I saw this book in the shop,but had no idea to look on it more.But now i gonna get this book .

    posted Monday, September 3 2007
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