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.
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum ...
In cryptography, a codebook is a document used for implementing a code. A codebook contains a lookup table for coding and decoding; each word or phrase has one or more strings which replace it. To decipher messages written in code, corresponding copies of the codebook must be available at either end.
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.
In the riveting pages of "The Code Book," Simon Singh takes readers on a fascinating journey through the world of cryptography, unveiling the secrets, intrigue, and drama that have accompanied the quest for secure communication throughout history.
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography is a work of nonfiction by British physicist Simon Singh, covering the science and study of codes, ciphers, and cryptology from ancient times to the modern era and beyond.
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography is a book by Simon Singh, published in 1999 by Fourth Estate and Doubleday. The Code Book describes some illustrative highlights in the history of cryptography, drawn from both of its principal branches, codes and ciphers.
Throughout the text are clear technical and mathematical explanations, and portraits of the remarkable personalities who wrote and broke the world's most difficult codes. Accessible, compelling, and remarkably far-reaching, this book will forever alter your view of history and what drives it.