The Code Book: The Secrets Behind Codebreaking

It's Known As the science of secrecy. Cryptography: the encoding and decoding of private information. It spans generations and is history's most fascinating story of intrigue and cunning. Julius Caesar created his own code, the Caesar Cipher, to protect his messages. Mary Queen of Scots employed a code in her attempt to dethrone Elizabeth I. The Enigma machine was manufactured for the automatic encryption of messages during the Second World War. And the battle rages on. How private are your e-mail communications? How secure is sending your credit card information over the Internet? And how much secrecy will the government tolerate? Accessible, compelling and timely, Simon Singh's international bestseller, adapted for young people, is sure to make readers see the past -- and the future -- in a whole new way. Book jacket.

Simon Singh is the author of Fermat’s Enigma and The Code Book. He lives in London. From the Hardcover edition.

Introduction	p. 1
The Cipher of Mary Queen of Scots: The birth of cryptography, the substitution cipher and the invention of codebreaking by frequency analysis	p. 5
The Anonymous Codebreaker: The Vigenere cipher, why cryptographers seldom get credit for their breakthroughs and a tale of buried treasure	p. 51
The Mechanization of Secrecy: The Zimmermann telegram, the Enigma machine and how cryptography changed the courses of World Wars I and II	p. 95
The Language Barrier: The impenetrability of unknown languages, the Navajo code talkers of World War II and the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs	p. 152
Alice and Bob Go Public: Modern cryptography, the solution to the so-called key-distribution problem and the secret history of nonsecret encryption	p. 180
Pretty Good Privacy: The politics of privacy, the future of cryptography and the quest for an uncrackable code	p. 221
The Codebreaker's Challenge	p. 243
Appendices	p. 245
Acknowledgments	p. 253
Further Reading	p. 255
Picture Credits	p. 260
Index	p. 261
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