TY  - BOOK
AU  -  Singh Simon
TI  - The code book : the secret history of codes and codebreaking
SN  - 9781857028898
U1  - 652.8 
PY  - 1999///
CY  - London : 
PB  - Fourth Estate, cop. 
KW  - Cryptography -- History.
KW  - Data encryption (Computer science)
N1  - Cipher of Mary Queen of Scots --
; Le Chiffre indéchiffrable --
; Mechanization of secrecy --
; Cracking the enigma --
; Language barrier --
; Alice and Bob go public --
; Pretty good privacy --
; Quantum leap into the future
N2  - The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography From the best-selling author of Fermat's Last Theorem, The Code Book is a history of man's urge to uncover the secrets of codes, from Egyptian puzzles to modern day computer encryptions
ER  -