The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
Since humans began writing, they have also been writing in code. This obsession with secrecy has had dramatic effects on the outcome of wars, monarchies and individual lives.
With clear mathematical linguistic and technological demonstrations of many of the codes, as well as illustrations of some of the remarkable personalities behind them - many courageous, some villainous - 'The Code Book' traces the fascinating development of codes and code-breaking from military espionage in Ancient Greece to modern computer ciphers to reveal how the remarkable science of cryptography has often changed the course of history.
Dramatic, compelling and remarkably far-reaching, 'The Code Book' will forever alter your view of history, what drives it and how private your last e-mail really was.
At the end of the book you will also find the world-wide Cipher Challenge for which there is a ten thousand pound reward, donated by the author, to be given to the first reader to successfully crack it.
