The code book: the evolution of secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots, to quantum cryptography/

Main Author: Singh, Simon
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York: Doubleday, c1999
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245 1 4 |a The code book:   |b the evolution of secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots, to quantum cryptography/  |c Simon Singh 
260 |a New York:  |b Doubleday,  |c c1999 
300 |a xiii, 402 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 388-393) and index. 
505 0 |a The cipher of Mary Queen of Scots -- Le chiffre indechiffrable -- The mechanisation of secrecy -- Cracking the Enigma -- The language barrier -- Alice and Bob go public -- Pretty good privacy -- A quantum leap into the future. 
650 0 |a Cryptography  |x History 
650 0 |a Data encryption (Computer science)  |x History 
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