The Cracking Code Book: How to make it, break it, hack it, crack it

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It highlights the tremendous lengths and difficulties people went through to develop the techniques that we today take for granted; the latter is particularly satesfying for a student feeling overwhelmed by some of the course material. Elonka Dunin and Klaus Schmeh take a fresh approach to the art of codebreaking with an extensive look at some of the most famous ciphers in history (both cracked and uncracked). It presents a challenge to a biographer, however, who has to pick one character from a cast of many to carry that story. When the cryptoanalysts at Bletchley Park cracked this particular code, the breakthrough was so significant the Enigma story has endured ever since. A fantastic resource, full of great stories of the deduction, intuition, and perseverance involved in codebreaking, along with the tales of how codebreakers have used their tools to attack seemingly unbreakable ciphers.

If your kids love the Explorer Academy series of books they'll love this book that will test their knowledge of ancient codes and ciphers in a series of head-scratching puzzles designed to outwit even the most clever cryptographers. Remarkables REMARKABLES Intriguing, stunning, or otherwise remarkable books These include fine editions, foreign publications that are exceptional for their interest or production, special editions and some first-rate books from very small publishers. Also, that extraordinary word and number patterns in ancient Hebrew Bible texts have much in common with modern computer codes and can even predict the future (although as this was first published in 1997, that future is now long past). It introduces you to a variety of both famous and lesser known cryptograms throughout time, while it guides you carefully through the various processes of unraveling their secrets. This book answers questions like these, and shows, in particular, the unjustified faith the Germans had in the Enigma machine.With over a hundred cloak and dagger examples, ranging from the Emperor Ferdinand II, the Holy Roman Emperor from the House of Habsburg in the 1640s, to the Zodiac Killer in northern California in the 1960s, this is what you need. Jennifer's unique experience on the boat weaves through time, from her bohemian 1960s childhood to being a struggling actor in New York. During the dark days of 1941, as Britain stood almost alone against the the Nazis, this remarkable achievement seemed impossible.

This book claims to be a history of the science of secrecy from Ancient Egypt to quantum cryptography.Imaginative and unconventional thinking was essential if Britain was to overcome the challenge of Nazi Germany.

When a great biographer combines his own fascination with science and a superb narrative style, the result is magic. It is a rich account of the shadowy side of military strength and of the men and women whose work was, in the words of the US navy, of ‘immeasurable importance in the successful prosecution’ of the Pacific War. An accessible history of decryption with elements that will appeal to casual history buffs and solvers of word puzzles. Believing its ciphers to be unbreakable, they failed to spot evidence of its weaknesses and vulnerability. In fact, despite its fearsome length and academic credentials, The Name of the Rose is about the hunt for a serial killer whose murders reflect the Seven Trumpets from the book of Revelation.An extraordinarily detailed and revealing account of scientific progress and competition that grants readers behind-the-scenes access to the scientific process, which the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us remains opaque to the wider public. Subtitled “Secrecy and Privacy in the New Code War”, Levy gives an excellent account of the development of modern cipher systems, including public key cryptography. Perhaps the most famous, and amongst the most imaginative and unconventional, was Alan Turing, so this book fully deserves a place on my list. I've just received a copy of Simon Singh's 'The Cracking Codebook' but, unfortunately, it's nothing more than a virtually identical (less the chapter on quantum computing) copy of 'The Code Book'.