The Code Book: The Secret History of Codes and Code-breaking


The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum CryptographyFrom the best-selling author of Fermat’s Last Theorem, The Code Book is a history of man’s urge to uncover the secrets of codes, from Egyptian puzzles to modern day computer encryptions.As in Fermat’s Last Theorem, Simon Singh brings life to an anstonishing story of puzzles, codes, languages and riddles that reveals man’s continual pursuit to disguise and uncover, and to work out the secret languages of others.Codes have influenced events throughout history, both in the stories of those who make them and those who break them. The betrayal of Mary Queen of Scots and the cracking of the enigma code that helped the Allies in World War II are major episodes in a continuing history of cryptography. In addition to stories of intrigue and warfare, Simon Singh also investigates other codes, the unravelling of genes and the rediscovery of ancient languages and most tantalisingly, the Beale ciphers, an unbroken code that could hold the key to a $20 million treasure.

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The Science of Secrecy from Historical Egypt to Quantum CryptographyFrom the best-selling creator of Fermat’s Final Theorem, The Code E book is a historical past of man’s urge to uncover the secrets and techniques of codes, from Egyptian puzzles to modern-day laptop encryptions.As in Fermat’s Final Theorem, Simon Singh brings life to an anstonishing story of puzzles, codes, languages and riddles that reveals man’s continuous pursuit to disguise and uncover, and to work out the key languages of others.Codes have influenced occasions all through historical past, each within the tales of those that make them and those that break them. The betrayal of Mary Queen of Scots and the cracking of the enigma code that helped the Allies in World Battle II are main episodes in a unbroken historical past of cryptography. Along with tales of intrigue and warfare, Simon Singh additionally investigates different codes, the unravelling of genes and the rediscovery of historic languages and most tantalisingly, the Beale ciphers, an unbroken code that might maintain the important thing to a $20 million treasure.

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