The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet Hardcover - 1996
by David Kahn
This updated edition of the classic history of codes and ciphers--how they work, how they are broken, and the roles they have played in war and peace--has also been expanded to include a new final chapter on computer security issues.
From the rear cover
Man has created codes to keep secrets and has broken codes to learn those secrets since the time of the Pharaohs. For 4,000 years, fierce battles have been waged between codemakers and codebreakers, and the story of these battles is civilization's secret history, the hidden account of how wars were won and lost, diplomatic intrigues foiled, business secrets stolen, governments ruined, computers hacked. From the XYZ Affair to the Dreyfus Affair, from the Gallic War to the Persian Gulf, from Druidic runes and the kaballah to outer space, from the Zimmermann telegram to Enigma to the Manhattan Project, codebreaking has shaped the course of human events to an extent beyond any easy reckoning. Once a government monopoly, cryptology today touches everybody. It secures the Internet, keeps e-mail private, maintains the integrity of cash machine transactions, and scrambles TV signals on unpaid-for channels. David Kahn's The Codebreakers takes the measure of what codes and codebreaking have meant in human history in a single comprehensive account, astonishing in its scope and enthralling in its execution. Hailed upon first publication as a book likely to become the definitive work of its kind, The Codebreakers has more than lived up to that prediction: it remains unsurpassed. With a brilliant new chapter that makes use of previously classified documents to bring the book thoroughly up to date, and to explore the myriad ways computer codes and their hackers are changing all of our lives, The Codebreakers is the skeleton key to a thousand thrilling true stories of intrigue, mystery, and adventure. It is a masterpiece of the historian's art.
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- Title The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet
- Author David Kahn
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Rev Sub
- Pages 1200
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Scribner Book Company, New York
- Date 1996-12
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780684831305 / 0684831309
- Weight 3.62 lbs (1.64 kg)
- Dimensions 9.44 x 6.6 x 2.33 in (23.98 x 16.76 x 5.92 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Cryptography - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96031318
- Dewey Decimal Code 652.8
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