The Code-Breakers

Kahn, David

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ISBN 10: 0722151462 ISBN 13: 9780722151464

Published by Sphere Books Limited, London, 1973

Language: English

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Title

The Code-Breakers

Publisher

Sphere Books Limited, London

Publication Date

1973

Language

English

ISBN 10

0722151462

ISBN 13

9780722151464

Binding

Softcover

Condition

Good

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"Few false ideas have more firmly gripped the minds of so many intelligent men than the one that, if they just tried, they could invent a cipher that no one could break," writes David Kahn in this massive (almost 1,200 pages) volume. Most of The Codebreakers focuses on the 20th century, especially World War II. But its reach is long. Kahn traces cryptology's origins to the advent of writing. It seems that as soon as people learned how to record their thoughts, they tried to figure out ways of keeping them hidden. Kahn covers everything from the theory of ciphering to the search for "messages" from outer space. He concludes with a few thoughts about encryption on the Internet.

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