The Cracking Code Book: How to make it, break it, hack it, crack it

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This is a fantastic guide to cryptography, Dunin and Schmeh do a masterful job of explaining most known methods complete with historical commentary.Due to the simplistic language it will be a good read for any curious layman with know IT background.

Goes through early basic codes (letter substitution for example) through the WWII Enigma code (which I almost feel like I could now crack! Perennials PERENNIALS constant friends A selection of novels, memoirs and more by some of our favourite authors. Isaacson’s vivid account is a page-turning detective story and an indelible portrait of a revolutionary thinker who, as an adolescent in Hawai’i, was told that girls don’t do science. The book takes a firm position that such puzzles can actually be solved and decrypted, and provides expert guidance, methodology and examples. solutions are provided at the back of each book which is just as well because I rate a few of the puzzles diabolical and impossible to start.A similar dilemma preoccupied Carl Djerassi and Roald Hoffmann in their 2001 play Oxygen, which asked who should receive a “Retro-Nobel” for the discovery of the eponymous gas.

If you love secret codes and code breaking you'll love this selection of our favourite books about secret codes and ciphers. Believing its ciphers to be unbreakable, they failed to spot evidence of its weaknesses and vulnerability.There are so many great kids books that include secret codes and ciphers in their stories, and even more non-fiction books about the history of codes and ciphers, plus some awesome hands-on coding activity books. McKay traces the increasingly sophisticated use and decryption of coded texts to wage and win wars, to woo lovers, and to conceal esoteric or scientific knowledge throughout the centuries. Having completed his PhD at Cambridge he worked from 1991 to 1997 at the BBC producing Tomorrow's World and co-directing the BAFTA award-winning documentary Fermat's Last Theorem for the Horizon series.

A groundbreaking work of military history, The Secret Code-Breakers of Central Bureau gives these talented and dedicated individuals their due at last. Genetic destiny is a central theme of The Code Breaker, Isaacson’s portrait of the gene-editing pioneer Jennifer Doudna, who, with a small army of other scientists, handed humanity the first really effective tools to shape it. See our Remarkables Archive for some that are no longer in print, but which we are happy to try to track down. The author tells the story of how opponents in Washington forced Rochefort's removal from Station Hypo and denied him the Distinguished Service Medal recommended by Admiral Nimitz. The two books complement each other beautifully and I found Simon McKay's insight into the life at Bletchley was of enormous value in fleshing out Simon Singh's story.The Code Breaker unfolds as an enthralling detective story, crackling with ambition and feuds, laboratories and conferences, Nobel laureates and self-taught mavericks. As I read the book I was also reading, in bed and on my Kindle, Sinclair McKay's intriguing and insightful book The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre .