Summary of Simon Singh's The Code Book
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Summary of Simon Singh's The Code Book

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Summary of Simon Singh's The Code Book

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Get the Summary of Simon Singh's The Code Book in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. As the value of information increases by the second and new methods of communication alter societies, the process of securing messages and data, which is called encryption, will be playing an increasingly significant part in our daily life. In The Code Book (1999), Simon Singh traces the history of secret codes and their crucial role in deciding the outcomes of wars and dynasties. He explores the evolution of encryption from simple substitution of letters to a complex cipher system, and shows how the subject of coding is more relevant in the Digital Age than ever before...

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Table of contents

  1. Overview
  2. Linguistic Magic
  3. Encryption
  4. Steganography and Cryptography
  5. Substitution and Transposition
  6. The Vigenère Cipher
  7. The ADFGVX Cipher
  8. German Enigma and Polish Biuro
  9. Purple, Typex, SIGABA, and Navajo
  10. Egyptian Hieroglyphs
  11. Computers and Cryptanalysis
  12. Cryptography in the Information Age
  13. The Future of Cryptanalysis
  14. Author’s Style
  15. Author’s Perspective

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