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The code book : how to make it, break it, hack it, crack it / Simon Singh.

By: Singh, Simon.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Delacorte Press, 2002, c2001Description: 263 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0385729138; 0385900325.Subject(s): Coding theory | CryptographyDDC classification: 652/.8 Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Sample text | Publisher description | Table of contents
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1 THE CIPHER OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS 5 -- The birth of cryptography, the substitution cipher and -- the invention of codebreaking by frequency analysis --2 THE ANONYMOUS CODEBREAKER 51 -- The Vigenere cipher, why cryptograp
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1 THE CIPHER OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS 5 -- The birth of cryptography, the substitution cipher and -- the invention of codebreaking by frequency analysis --2 THE ANONYMOUS CODEBREAKER 51 -- The Vigenere cipher, why cryptograp