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Author:

Pincock, Stephen.

Title:

Codebreaker : the history of codes and ciphers, from the ancient pharaohs to quantum cryptography / Stephen Pincock.

Edition:

1st U.S. ed

Publisher:

Walker,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

176 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Cryptography.
Cryptography--History.
Ciphers.
Ciphers--History.
Cryptographie.
Cryptographie--Histoire.
Chiffres (Cryptographie)
Chiffres (Cryptographie)--Histoire.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 176) and index.

Contents:

1. Originality -- Unbroken codes : the Phaistos disk -- Cultural codes : holy codes -- Cultural codes : codes of the Kama Sutra -- 2. Ingenuity -- Cultural codes : Rosslyn's secrets : hidden meaning in architecture and music -- Unbroken codes : the most mysterious book : the Voynich manuscript -- Unbroken codes : the man in the iron mask -- 3. Wit -- Specific codes : the ingenious professor Babbage -- Specific codes : the Playfair cipher -- Unbroken codes : hidden treasure, hidden meaning, the Beale papers -- Unbroken codes : the Dorabella cipher, Elgar's other enigma -- 4. Perseverance -- Specific codes : the enigma machine -- Specific codes : invisible ink and other tools of the spying trade -- Specific codes : purple and Pearl Harbor -- 5. Speed -- Unbroken codes : the Zodiac killer -- Specific codes : cracking Poe's Graham magazine cipher -- Cultural codes : codes in fiction -- 6. Vision -- Specific codes : the cat came back -- Specific codes : quantum cryptography, being in two places at once -- Specific codes : quantum cryptography in a box of chocolates -- Appendix. Code challenge -- Glossary.

ISBN:

9780802715470
0802715478

Locations:

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

SFPH074 -- Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo)