The Code Book

The secreet History of Codes & Code-breaking

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Paperback, 402 pages

English language

Published Feb. 17, 2000 by Fourth Estate Limited.

ISBN:
978-0-00-763574-0
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OCLC Number:
52534625

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5 stars (1 review)

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. Thus the book's title should not be misconstrued as suggesting that the book deals only with codes, and not with ciphers; or that the book is in fact a codebook.

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reviewed The Code Book by Simon Singh

Both a fascinating history and accessible primer

5 stars

One thing that's missing in the teaching of computer science is history (think Ada) and there's no better example than the history cryptography, with famous ciphers going back to Caesar. It just gets juicer over the centuries, with the technical that details that normally might deaden your attention span plainly explained by the author. And now I think I have a handle on quantum cryptography. But as another review here noted, this book was published a few decades ago, so what have I missed?