Codes, Ciphers & Other Cryptic & Clandestine Communication: Making and Breaking Secret Messages from Hieroglyphs to the Internet - Rilegato

Wrixon, Fred B.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1579120407 ISBN 13: 9781579120405

Casa editrice: Black Dog & Leventhal Pub, 1998

Riassunto

Featuring anecdotes about famous cryptographers, a wide-ranging look at the use of secret code uses hundreds of illustrated examples and technical explanations to trace the history of coding and teach readers how send their own secret messages.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Fred B. Wrixon is an expert in codes, military history and espionage. He has written three books includingCodes, Ciphers and Secret Languages, Codes and Ciphers and 2440 Questions and Answers. He often spends his free time exchanging code deciphering puzzles with friends. He lives in the Ohio River Valley.

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Learn the fascinating world of codes - from deciphering ancient hieroglyphics to cipher machines used in the world wars to computer cryptology for encoding financial transactions. The making and breaking of codes has shaped history. Every section is a dramatic story with thrilling narratives and detailed descriptions of code development.

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Codes Ciphers & Other Cryptic & Clandestine Communication chronicles the world of secret communication from hieroglyphics to the Internet. The making and breaking of codes through history has won or lost wars, exposed political intrigue, disguised secret religions and secured financial transactions. It is a fascinating world of technological advances, cloak and dagger maneuvers and war espionage.

Whether browsing through or reading cover to cover, you'll learn the amazing achievements of cryptology from the Rosicrucian's and Mason's secret transmissions to the Ultra operation which broke the German code and helped win World War II to computer codes that protect ATM's and the Internet today.

Progressing methodically through the development of each coding method, concise, and engaging profiles describe the structural basis of each system and the thrilling stories that surround it. Biographies identify the significant code developers and breakers. Illustrations of letter and number patterns recreate the code makers' procedures, and sketches of coding machines show the actual devises used in the field.

Every type of coded communication is covered from transpositions, substitutions and polygraphic ciphers to signals, stenography and ancient symbols. In special chapters, code and cipher breaking hints and puzzles explain how to make your own secret messages and how to break other people's. Anyone can become an amateur cryptologist!

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1579120407
• ISBN 13: 9781579120405
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 608
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile