The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

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Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Incorporated, 2000 - Science - 411 pages
"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. 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.

About the author (2000)

Simon Singh was born in Great Britain in 1964 and educated at Imperial College and the University of Cambridge (where he received a Ph. D. in particle physics). He worked at the European Centre for Particle Physics and the BBC's science department. At the BBC, he worked on Tomorrow's World. Singh and John Lynch produced and directed an award-winning documentary on Fermat's Last Theory. He later published a book on the same topic.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
AuthorSimon Singh
Editionreprint
PublisherAnchor Books, a division of Random House, Incorporated, 2000
ISBN1439580162, 9781439580165
Length411 pages
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