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Item specifics
- Condition
- Book Title
- The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writing
- Topic
- Cryptography
- Genre
- Mathematics & Sciences
- Edition
- First Edition
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- ISBN
- 9780025604605
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Macmillan Company, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0025604600
ISBN-13
9780025604605
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15209
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
1184 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Codebreakers : the Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet
Subject
Communication Studies
Publication Year
1967
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Language Arts & Disciplines
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight
72.1 Oz
Item Length
8.7 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
652.8
Synopsis
A complete, factual account of cryptology including famous personalities, the techniques and the history of this science., The magnificent, unrivaled history of codes and ciphers -- how they're made, how they're broken, and the many and fascinating roles they've played since the dawn of civilization in war, business, diplomacy, and espionage -- updated with a new chapter on computer cryptography and the Ultra secret. 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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