The Codebreakers

Kahn, David

ISBN 10: 0722151462 / ISBN 13: 9780722151464

Published by Sphere, 1973

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Copy is intact and pages unmarked but discoloured. Some signs of wear to cover.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Codebreakers
• Publisher: Sphere
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0722151462
• ISBN 13: 9780722151464
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fair
• Weight: 295 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

"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.