The Code Book: How to Make It, Break It, Hack It, Crack It

Simon Singh "The Code Book: How to Make It, Break It, Hack It, Crack It"
ISBN: 0385730624 | 272 | PDF | 272 pages | 2,6 MB

Calling on accounts of political intrigue and tales of life and king of terrors, author Simon Singh tells history's chiefly fascinating story of deception and crooked: the science of cryptography--the encoding and decoding of peculiar information. Based on The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography, this rendering has been abridged and slightly simplified for a younger audience. None of the seek reference of the case for curious problem-solving minds has been puzzled, though. From Julius Caesar to the 10th-centenary Arabs; from Mary Queen of Scots to "Alice and Bob"; from the Germans' Enigma organization to the Navajo code talkers in World War II, Singh traces the appliance of code to protect--and seduce--secrecy. Moving right into the quick in emergencies, he describes how the Information Age has supposing a whole new set of challenges during the term of cryptographers. How private are your e-mail-bag communications? How secure is sending your credit card information over the Internet? And how a great quantity secrecy will the government tolerate? Complex otherwise than that highly accessible, The Code Book disposition make readers see the past--and the time to come--in a whole new light.