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Author Pincock, Stephen.

Title Codebreaker : the history of codes and ciphers, from the ancient pharaohs to quantum cryptography / Stephen Pincock.

Publication Info. New York : Walker & Company, [2006]
©2006

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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  652.8 PIN    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Teen  TEEN 652.8 PIN    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  652.8 PINCOCK    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  652.809 PINCOCK    Check Shelf
 Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department  652.809 PIN    Check Shelf
Edition First U.S. ed.
Description 176 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 176) and index.
Contents 1. Originality -- Unbroken codes : the Phaistos disk -- Cultural codes : holy codes -- Cultural codes : codes of the Kama Sutra -- 2. Ingenuity -- Cultural codes : Rosslyn's secrets : hidden meaning in architecture and music -- Unbroken codes : the most mysterious book : the Voynich manuscript -- Unbroken codes : the man in the iron mask -- 3. Wit -- Specific codes : the ingenious professor Babbage -- Specific codes : the Playfair cipher -- Unbroken codes : hidden treasure, hidden meaning, the Beale papers -- Unbroken codes : the Dorabella cipher, Elgar's other enigma -- 4. Perseverance -- Specific codes : the enigma machine -- Specific codes : invisible ink and other tools of the spying trade -- Specific codes : purple and Pearl Harbor -- 5. Speed -- Unbroken codes : the Zodiac killer -- Specific codes : cracking Poe's Graham magazine cipher -- Cultural codes : codes in fiction -- 6. Vision -- Specific codes : the cat came back -- Specific codes : quantum cryptography, being in two places at once -- Specific codes : quantum cryptography in a box of chocolates -- Appendix. Code challenge -- Glossary.
Subject Cryptography.
Cryptography -- History.
Ciphers.
Ciphers -- History.
Added Title History of codes and ciphers
ISBN 0802715478: $19.95
9780802715470
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