DECIPHER: The Greatest Codes Ever Invented and How to Break Them - Couverture rigide

Frary, Mark

 
9781911130376: DECIPHER: The Greatest Codes Ever Invented and How to Break Them
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1911130374 ISBN 13 : 9781911130376
Editeur : Modern Books, 2017

Synopsis

Codes win wars, conceal state secrets, protect privacy, secure banks and transmit messages. Through forty - five of the world’s most influential codes and ciphers, Codes presents a compelling insight into the art and science of cryptography. Structured chronologically Codes uses scientific examples and provides practi cal tools for understanding and using these fascinating codes and ciphers. It features a diverse range of codes , inc luding the Caesar shift cipher , Easter Island’s bewildering Rongorongo and the famous Enigma code . Codes also includes features on famous co debreakers of history such as Alan Turing, Jonas Nordby and August Kerckhoff , providing a comprehensive overview to this beguiling secretive world.

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À propos de l?auteur

Mark Frary is an award-winning UK-based technology and science writer, and the author of numerous bo oks including Codebreaker: The History of Secret Communication(with Stephen Pincock), Freaky Science, Numbers in Your Pocketand Better Living Through Science. He has a first-class degree in astronomy and physics from University College London and has carried outresearch at the CERN nuclear physics laboratory in Geneva. .

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Codes win wars, conceal state secrets, protect privacy, secure banks and transmit messages. Through forty - five of the world’s most influential codes and ciphers, Codes presents a compelling insight into the art and science of cryptography. Structured chronologically Codes uses scientific examples and provides practi cal tools for understanding and using these fascinating codes and ciphers. It features a diverse range of codes , inc luding the Caesar shift cipher , Easter Island’s bewildering Rongorongo and the famous Enigma code . Codes also includes features on famous co debreakers of history such as Alan Turing, Jonas Nordby and August Kerckhoff , providing a comprehensive overview to this beguiling secretive world.

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Éditeur
Modern Books
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1911130374
ISBN 13 
9781911130376
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
176
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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