EAN: 9780385495325

THE CODE BOOK - SIMON SINGH KARTONIERT (TB)

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.  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.
It will also make you wonder how private that e-mail you just sent really is.

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