the science of secrecy from ancient egypt to quantum cryptography

Includes bibliographical references and indexĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:09:36 Boxid IA174701 Boxid_2 CH120121114-BL1 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York DonorĪllen_countydonation Edition 1st Anchor Books ed. It will also make you wonder how private that e-mail you just sent really is'-Publisher's description

Accessible, compelling, and remarkably far-reaching, this book will forever alter your view of history and what drives it. '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. 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 '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.

Cipher of Mary Queen of Scots - Le Chiffre indechiffrable - Mechanization of secrecy - Cracking the enigma - Language barrier - Alice and Bob go public - Pretty good privacy - Quantum leap into the future

The science of secrecy from ancient egypt to quantum cryptography