The Code Book
Subtitle: The evolution of secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots, to quantum cryptography
By: Simon Singh.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9780385495318
Subjects: Cryptography -- History; Data encryption (Computer science) -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 388-393) and index.
Table of contents: title: The cipher of Mary Queen of Scots; title: Le chiffre indéchiffrable; title: The mechanisation of secrecy; title: Cracking the Enigma; title: The language barrier; title: Alice and Bob go public; title: Pretty good privacy; title: A quantum leap into the future.