Codebreaker: The History of Codes and Ciphers, from the Ancient Pharaohs to Quantum Cryptography - Hardcover

Pincock, Stephen

 
9780802715470: Codebreaker: The History of Codes and Ciphers, from the Ancient Pharaohs to Quantum Cryptography

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A four-thousand-year history of cryptography ranges from the time of the ancient Egyptian pharaohs to the modern-day world of Internet communication to reveal the use of codes and ciphers to hide important secrets, explaining how encryption was developed and has evolved through the centuries, looking at famous codes, and offering clues for breaking a code.

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Stephen Pincock is a news editor for The Scientist magazine, and a science columnist for the Financial Times magazine. A trained biochemist and science journalist, Pincock has long had a fascination for deciphering codes and for the history of espionage. He has written widely about the history and development of cryptology, technology, and science.

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