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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) logisitical breakthrough that made Internet commerce secure, The Code Book tells the story of the most powerful intellectual weapon ever known: secrecy.
Throughout the text are clear technical and mathematical explanations, and portraits of the remarkable personalities who wrote and broke the world's most difficult codes. Accessible, compelling, and remarkably far-reaching, this book will forever alter your view of history and what drives it. It will also make you wonder how private that e-mail you just sent really is.
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Cryptography, History, Data encryption (Computer science), Coding theory, Confidential communications, Ciphers, Codes, Cryptographie, Histoire, Geschichte, Kryptologie, Chiffrement (Informatique), Geheimschrift, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Angewandte Mathematik, Dechiffrierung, Enigma (Chiffriermaschine), Chiffrierung, Einführung, Communications, Cipher and telegraph codes, Code names, Décodeur, Informatique quantique, Confidentialité, Communication humaine, Écriture chiffrée, 20e s., Écriture secrète, Origines, Cryptography--history, Data encryption (computer science)--history, Z103 .s56 1999, 652/.8/09Showing 7 featured editions. View all 23 editions?
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Codici & segreti. La storia affascinante dei messaggi cifrati dall'antico Egitto a Internet
Apr 18, 2001, BUR Biblioteca Univ. Rizzoli
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Geheime Botschaften: Die Kunst der Verschlüsselung von der Antike bis in die Zeiten des Internet
December 1, 2001, Dtv
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3423330716 9783423330718
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
August 29, 2000, Anchor, Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc.
in English
0385495323 9780385495325
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Histoire des codes secrets: De l'Égypte des Pharaons à l'ordinateur quantique
1999, J.-C. Lattès
in French
2709620480 9782709620482
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The Code Book: The evolution of secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots, to quantum cryptography
1999, Doubleday
in English
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0385495315 9780385495318
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The code book: the science of secrecy from ancient Egypt to quantum cryptography
1999, Fourth Estate
in English
1857028791 9781857028799
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The code book: the evolution of secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots, to quantum cryptography
1999, Doubleday
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