Codebreaker : the history of codes and ciphers, from the ancient pharaohs to quantum cryptography /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Walker,
c2006.
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| Edition: | 1st U.S. ed |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Originality
- Unbroken codes : the Phaistos disk
- Cultural codes : holy codes
- Cultural codes : codes of the Kama Sutra
- 2. Ingenuity
- Cultural codes : Rosslyn's secrets : hidden meaning in architecture and music
- Unbroken codes : the most mysterious book : the Voynich manuscript
- Unbroken codes : the man in the iron mask
- 3. Wit
- Specific codes : the ingenious professor Babbage
- Specific codes : the Playfair cipher
- Unbroken codes : hidden treasure, hidden meaning, the Beale papers
- Unbroken codes : the Dorabella cipher, Elgar's other enigma
- 4. Perseverance
- Specific codes : the enigma machine
- Specific codes : invisible ink and other tools of the spying trade
- Specific codes : purple and Pearl Harbor
- 5. Speed
- Unbroken codes : the Zodiac killer
- Specific codes : cracking Poe's Graham magazine cipher
- Cultural codes : codes in fiction
- 6. Vision
- Specific codes : the cat came back
- Specific codes : quantum cryptography, being in two places at once
- Specific codes : quantum cryptography in a box of chocolates
- Appendix. Code challenge
- Glossary.