TY  - GEN
N2  - "In his first book since the bestselling Fermat's Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code, to the Navajo Code Talkers who helped the Allies win World War II, to the incredible (and incredibly simple) logisitical breakthrough that made Internet commerce secure, The Code Book tells the story of the most powerful intellectual weapon ever known: secrecy.
AB  - "In his first book since the bestselling Fermat's Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code, to the Navajo Code Talkers who helped the Allies win World War II, to the incredible (and incredibly simple) logisitical breakthrough that made Internet commerce secure, The Code Book tells the story of the most powerful intellectual weapon ever known: secrecy.
T1  - The code book :the evolution of secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots, to quantum cryptography /
AU  - Singh, Simon,
CN  - Z103
CN  - GV939.H45
N1  - The Library of Congress has catalogued the Doubleday edition as follows: Singh, Simon. The code book : the evolution of secrecy from Mary Queen of Scots to quantum cryptography / Simon Singh. - 1st ed.
N1  - "First edition."
ID  - 12772
KW  - Cryptography.
KW  - Data encryption (computer sciencea)
KW  - Confidential communications.
KW  - Ciphers.
KW  - Ciphers
KW  - Internet
KW  - INFORMATION SCIENCE (DOCUMENTATION) : HISTORICAL STUDIES
KW  - COMPUTER SCIENCE : DATA ENCRYPTION
KW  - CRYPTOGRAPHY : HISTORY
KW  - Chiffrement (Informatique)
SN  - 0385495323
TI  - The code book :the evolution of secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots, to quantum cryptography /
ER  -