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The magnificent, unrivaled history of codes and ciphers—how 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 espionage—updated 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 its scope and enthralling in its execution. Hailed upon first publication as a book likely to become the definitive work of its kind, The Codebreakers has more than lived up to that prediction: it remains unsurpassed. With a brilliant new chapter that makes use of previously classified documents to bring the book thoroughly up to date, and to explore the myriad ways computer codes and their hackers are changing all of our lives, The Codebreakers is the skeleton key to a thousand thrilling true stories of intrigue, mystery, and adventure. It is a masterpiece of the historian's art.

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5 December 1996
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15.56 x 6.6 x 23.5 cm
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0684831309
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Scribner (5 December 1996)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0684831309
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0684831305
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.56 x 6.6 x 23.5 cm

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David Kahn, a recently visiting historian at the National Security Agency, is the world's leading expert on the history of cryptology, and the author of Hitler's Spies, Seizing the Enigma, and Kahn on Codes, as well as articles in numerous popular and technical journals. He holds a Ph.D. in Modern History from Oxford. An editor at Newsday, he lives in Great Neck, New York.

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If you're new to cryptography this book is an excellent start, very informative and interesting in addition to being well researched.

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Eric

A Good Read

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This is not fiction. It is fact and covers secret codes through the ages. It is fascinating to read and covers the full history of codes.

I am concerned about internet security and read all the methods of secret codes and code breaking to ensure that I retain secure transactions.

There are a lot of pages to read (over 1,000) so it will take a while to digest it all.

Excellent value for money.

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Interesting,

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Interesting, though history still has not revealed all but this is a must for anybody needing to know about code breaking

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Mr. S. Lombardo

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Brilliant book and a great read also came very quick thank you ******

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André Gomes

Good Overview

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A good overview of the history of cryptography, but it could be more detailed while being an easy reading for anyone without knowledge of the field.

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C. J. King

Interested in Code Breaking

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This is a massive tome of a book and will take a long time to read, but I had involvement and have remained interest in all aspects of ciphers.

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