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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Pincock, Stephen.     Subjects     Cryptography.     Cryptography -- History.     Ciphers.     Ciphers -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Pincock, Stephen.       by title:      Codebreaker : the hi...         MARC Display

Codebreaker : the history of codes and ciphers, from the ancient pharaohs to quantum cryptography / Stephen Pincock. by Pincock, Stephen. New York : Walker, 2006. Subjects Cryptography.   Cryptography -- History.   Ciphers.   Ciphers -- History. ISBN:  0802715478 9780802715470 Description:  176 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm. Edition:  1st U.S. ed 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. Requests:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Salt Lake-Moanalua Public Library YA -- Nonfiction 652.8 Pi Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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