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Book ReviewsThe Code Book : The Evolution Of Secrecy From Mary, To Queen Of Scots To Quantum Crytography |
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Book: The Code Book : The Evolution Of Secrecy From Mary, To Queen Of Scots To Quantum Crytography
Written by: Simon Singh |
Publisher: Doubleday
Average Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5
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After finishing this book you may wanna become a cryptographer
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5 / 5
This book is FANTASTIC. It details the cat and mouse game between codemakeres and codebreakers in a very lucid and intersting manner. It will make you appreciate the role of intelligence in warfare even more, and you will know about people and facilities who have influenced the course of world war 2 as much as aircrafts and battleships.
This book really very interesting and informative and anyone who just wanna read a book just for kiling time should grab this one.
Fun book
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4 / 5
Very fun and easy book to read.It is not just about codes and how to learn them.It goes back in the history and talls u all inportant events where the codes playd inportant part.It one of those books u read in a 5 days or less.If you are into codes or history buy this book
Playful blend of mathematics and history
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5 / 5
Singh has penchant for unraveling the beauty of cryptography together with the intrigue of classified historical events.
He presents cyrptography as a tug of war between code breakers and code makers.
Starting with basic monoalphabetic substitution ciphers he shows how these were broken by the arabs using frequency analysis.
This led to the polyalphabetic ciphers which were eventually broken.
He delves into the impractical but unbreakable one time pad cipher and then the enigma apparatus explaining it in detail.
He hints at the key distribution problems which culminates in the discovery of asymmetric cryptography ( different keys for encryption and decryption ) and the public keys which are in widespread use today.
He concludes with a look at the future of cryptography...quantum cryptography.
Each concept is carefully and lucidly dealt with and a few exercises are provided at the end.
I was touched by his acknowledgement of many great cryptographers who for decades lived in anonymity never able to reveal their contributions.
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