Codebreaker
Subtitle: the history of secret communication
By: Stephen Pincock
Edition: Modern books ed.
Publisher: Elwin Street
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781906761103
Subjects: Cryptography; History; Ciphers
Description: A four-thousand-year history of cryptography ranges from the time of the ancient Egyptian pharaohs to the present, explaining encryption's development and evolution, looking at famous codes, and offering clues for code-breaking.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 176) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Originality; title: Unbroken codes : the Phaistos disk; title: Cultural codes : holy codes; title: Cultural codes : codes of the Kama Sutra; title: 2. Ingenuity; title: Cultural codes : Rosslyn's secrets : hidden meaning in architecture and music; title: Unbroken codes : the most mysterious book : the Voynich manuscript; title: Unbroken codes : the man in the iron mask; title: 3. Wit; title: Specific codes : the ingenious professor Babbage; title: Specific codes : the Playfair cipher; title: Unbroken codes : hidden treasure, hidden meaning, the Beale papers; title: Unbroken codes : the Dorabella cipher, Elgar's other enigma; title: 4. Perseverance; title: Specific codes : the enigma machine; title: Specific codes : invisible ink and other tools of the spying trade; title: Specific codes : purple and Pearl Harbor; title: 5. Speed; title: Unbroken codes : the Zodiac killer; title: Specific codes : cracking Poe's Graham magazine cipher; title: Cultural codes : codes in fiction; title: 6. Vision; title: Specific codes : the cat came back; title: Specific codes : quantum cryptography, being in two places at once; title: Specific codes : quantum cryptography in a box of chocolates; title: Appendix. Code challenge; title: Glossary.