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ISBN10: 0684831309, ISBN13: 9780684831305, [publisher: Scribner] Hardcover New. Fast Shipping and good customer service [Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1996]
Scribner 1996-12-05 Revised ed. Hardcover Good Textbook, May Have Highlights, Notes and/or Underlining, BOOK ONLYNO ACCESS CODE, NO CD, Ships with Emailed Tracking.
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ISBN10: 0684831309, ISBN13: 9780684831305, [publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. The magnificent, unrivaled history of codes and ciphershow 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 espionageupdated 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 ...
Scribner, Date: 1996-12-05. Hardcover. Good. Textbook, May Have Highlights, Notes and/or Underlining, BOOK ONLYNO ACCESS CODE, NO CD, Ships with Emailed Tracking 1996. Scribner ISBN 0684831309 9780684831305 [US]
ISBN10: 0684831309, ISBN13: 9780684831305, [publisher: Scribner] Hardcover Book is in NEW condition. Satisfaction Guaranteed! Fast Customer Service!! [Suffolk, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1996]
New York Scribner 1996 Revised Edition [Stated]. Later printing Hardcover Dave Kahn (Author photograph) Very good in Very good jacket xviii, 1181, [1] pages. Preface to the Revised Edition. Illustrations. Bibliography. Notes to Text. Notes to Illustrations. Index. Updated with a new chapter on computer cryptography and the Ultra secret. The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet (Revised And Updated). The Codebreakers comprehensively chronicles the history of cryptography from ancient Egypt to the time of its writing. It is widely regarded as the best account of the history of cryptography up to its publication. David Kahn (b. February 7, 1930) is a US historian, journalist and writer. He has written extensively on the history of cryptography and military intelligence. Kahn's first published book, The Codebreakers-The Story of Secret Writing (1967), has been widely considered to be a definitive account of the history of cryptography. The Codebreakers was a finalist for the nonfiction Pulitzer Prize in 1968. Kahn has said he traces his interest in cryptography to reading Fletcher Pratt's Secret and Urgent. Kahn is a founding editor of the Cryptologia journal. He attended Bucknell University. After graduation, he worked as a reporter at Newsday for several years. He also served as an editor at the International Herald Tribune in Paris for two years in the 1960s. It was during this period that he wrote an article for the New York ...
ISBN10: 0684831309, ISBN13: 9780684831305, [publisher: Scribner, New York] Hardcover xviii, 1181, [1] pages. Preface to the Revised Edition. Illustrations. Bibliography. Notes to Text. Notes to Illustrations. Index. Updated with a new chapter on computer cryptography and the Ultra secret. The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet (Revised And Updated). The Codebreakers comprehensively chronicles the history of cryptography from ancient Egypt to the time of its writing. It is widely regarded as the best account of the history of cryptography up to its publication. David Kahn (b. February 7, 1930) is a US historian, journalist and writer. He has written extensively on the history of cryptography and military intelligence. Kahn's first published book, The Codebreakers - The Story of Secret Writing (1967), has been widely considered to be a definitive account of the history of cryptography. The Codebreakers was a finalist for the nonfiction Pulitzer Prize in 1968. Kahn has said he traces his interest in cryptography to reading Fletcher Pratt's Secret and Urgent. Kahn is a founding editor of the Cryptologia journal. He attended Bucknell University. After graduation, he worked as a reporter at Newsday for several years. He also served as an editor at the International Herald Tribune in Paris for two years in the 1960s. It was during this period that he wrote an article for the New York Times Magazine about two defectors ...
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