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- English
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Secret and Urgent - The Story of Codes and Ciphers
Anon,
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NOTES
Page 56. Frederick’s invitation and Voltaire’s reply: the invitation, interpreted, reads
Ce soir souper (sous P) à Sans Souci (sous Ci)
and the acceptance:
J’ai grand (J grand) appetit (a petit)
Page 75. The Henri IV cipher. The full text, for those who are interested:
You are instructed to inform his excellency the Elector of Brandenburg that the French Army is now prepared to march on ten days’ notice. The ...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Prefatory Note
- Half title
- Introductory
- I. Sermons in Stones
- II. The Element of Doubt
- III. Jargon
- IV. Invention and Death
- V. Bacon or Shakespeare?
- VI. Satellites of the Royal Sun
- VII. Kings, Thieves and Diarists
- VIII. Failure
- IX. The Revival
- X. Code
- XI. The War of the Cryptographers
- XII. The Cryptographers’ War
- Notes
- Index