The Science of Secrecy: The Secret History of Codes and Code-breaking

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A TV tie-in edition of “The Code Book” filmed as a prime-time five-part Channel 4 series at the history of codes and code-breaking and presented by the creator. This book, which accompanies the major Channel 4 series, brings to life the hidden history of codes and code breaking. Because the birth of writing, there has also been the desire for secrecy. The story of codes is the story of the brilliant women and men who used mathematics, linguistics, machines, computers, gut instinct, logic and detective work to encrypt and break these secrect messages and the effect their work has had on history. In every episode of “The Science of Secrecy” Simon Singh tells us an interesting story from the history of codes: how the course of Crimean War used to be changed by the cracking of “unbreakable” Vigenere code; how the well-timed cracking of a single encoded telegram altered the course of World War I or how the mysteries of the Rosetta stone were revealed. The programme, and book, also investigates present day concerns about privacy on the web and public key cryptography and looks to the future and the possibilities that quantum computing will radically change the science of secrecy within the 21st century.

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