Singh Simon <br/><br/>
The code book : the secret history of codes and codebreaking 
Simon Singh 
 - London :   Fourth Estate, cop.   1999 
 - (xiii-402 p.) :   ill., portraits. ;   20 cm 
<br/><br/> Cipher of Mary Queen of Scots --<br/>  Le Chiffre indéchiffrable --<br/>  Mechanization of secrecy --<br/>  Cracking the enigma --<br/>  Language barrier --<br/>  Alice and Bob go public --<br/>  Pretty good privacy --<br/>  Quantum leap into the future 
<br/><br/> The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography From the best-selling author of Fermat's Last Theorem, The Code Book is a history of man's urge to uncover the secrets of codes, from Egyptian puzzles to modern day computer encryptions 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781857028898 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Cryptography -- History. <br/>Data encryption (Computer science) 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>652.8  / SIN