Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-275) and index.
Contents
Secret writing in war and peace -- Hidden messages and codebooks -- Codebooks in World War I -- He came, he saw, he encoded -- How a monalphabetic code is cracked -- Caesars in rank and file -- Keywords without end -- Shuffled texts -- From coding disk to enigma -- Enigma's secret is unveiled -- The arrival of the computer -- Encryption quite publicly -- Smart cards, one-way functions, and mousetraps.
Summary
Offers both an exciting chronicle of cryptography as well as a lucid exploration of the constantly evolving art of coding and decoding languages.