CODE BREAKING:HISTORY & EXPLORATION

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This brilliant history and exploration of the fascinating art and science of cryptography begins with Caesar's coded letters to Cicero, and ends with the computer hackers of the present. Code breaking has always played a key role in both the romance and the reality of espionage. Now, with the advent of electronic banking and wide-spread concerns about personal privacy, the issues surrounding the coding and decoding of information have assumed greater importance than ever before. Rudolf Kippenhahn provides both an exciting history of cryptography and a lucid exploration of the art of coding and decoding language.