Here are the encrypted notes of Spartan warriors, the brilliant code-crackers of Elizabeth I, secret messages of the American Revolution, spy books of the Civil War, the famous Enigma Machine, and the Navajo code talkers.
This vintage book contains Alexander D’Agapeyeff’s famous 1939 work, Codes and Ciphers - A History of Cryptography. Cryptography is the employment of codes and ciphers to protect secrets, and it has a long and interesting history.
Secret and Urgent: The Story of Codes and Ciphers
John F. Dooley History of Cryptography and Cryptanalysis Codes, Ciphers, and Their Algorithms Founding Editor Martin Campbell-Kelly, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK Series. History of Computing Front Cover.
The History of Codes and Ciphers in the United States Prior to World War I
Explains various methods used in cryptography and presents examples to help readers in breaking secret codes
Publisher Description
This edition surveys the entire history of codes through an eloquent narrative and an evocative range of illustrations, paying special attention to famous codes that have never been broken, such as the Beale Ciphers, the Voynich manuscript, ...
Also, there is a cut-out rotation template that is provided to make your very own cipher disk! After reading this book, you will have all the basic tools needed to create secret messages.
Coders and codebreakers alike will be fascinated by history's most mesmerizing stories of intrigue and cunning--from Julius Caesar and his Caeser cipher to the Allies' use of the Enigma machine to decode German messages during World War II. ...