The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet

Kahn, David

ISBN 10: 0684831309 / ISBN 13: 9780684831305

Editore: Scribner, 1996

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• Titolo: The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet
• Editore: Scribner
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0684831309
• ISBN 13: 9780684831305
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

An updated and revised history of codes offers new information on techniques used to break machine and computer ciphers, as well as the speculation of scientists on how messages from outer space might be solved and a study of the use of codes during the Vietnam War.

Informazioni sull?autore

David Kahn, a recently visiting historian at the National Security Agency, is the world's leading expert on the history of cryptology, and the author of Hitler's Spies, Seizing the Enigma, and Kahn on Codes, as well as articles in numerous popular and technical journals. He holds a Ph.D. in Modern History from Oxford. An editor at Newsday, he lives in Great Neck, New York.