If you are not yet addicted to cryptography, this book will get you addicted. Ed Scheidt, Central Intelligence Agency What could be more exciting, challenging, mysterious, and important in war than codebreaking? What could be a safer way to send a compromising message to your secret lover than to encrypt the message? If you already love spy stories and tales of business skulduggery in supposedly unbreakable ciphers, this is at last the single book that you must have. Good references for those who would make a code like Kryptos. Very concise, very inclusive, and easy to read. Phil Zimmermann, creator of PGP cryptography, inductee to the Internet Hall of Fame This is THE book about code breaking. A must for would-be recruits to GCHQ and the NSA! - Sir Dermot Turing, author of Prof, the biography of his uncle, Alan Turing Approachable, accessible, this book brings back the joy I felt when I first read about these kinds of things as a kid. Chris Christensen ― Cryptologia Quite the best book on codebreaking I have read: clear, engaging and fun. The enthusiasm of the writing will likely pull the reader through the book. Although manual encryption has lost much of its importance due to computer technology, many people are still interested in deciphering messages of this kind. Its focus is also largely on historical encryption. The book's focus is very much on breaking pencil-and-paper, or manual, encryption methods. Many people are obsessed with trying to solve famous crypto mysteries, including members of the Kryptos community (led by Elonka Dunin) trying to solve a decades-old cryptogram on a sculpture at the centre of CIA Headquarters readers of the novels of Dan Brown as well as Elonka Dunin's The Mammoth Book of Secret Code Puzzles (UK)/ The Mammoth Book of Secret Codes and Cryptograms (US) historians who regularly encounter encrypted documents perplexed family members who discover an encrypted postcard or diary in an ancestor's effects law-enforcement agents who are confronted by encrypted messages, which also happens more often than might be supposed members of the American Cryptogram Association (ACA) geocachers (many caches involve a crypto puzzle) puzzle fans and computer gamers (many games feature encryption puzzles). This is a book both for the growing number of enthusiasts obsessed with real-world mysteries, and also fans of more challenging puzzle books. Geocachers, computer gamers and puzzle fans also require codebreaking skills. Breaking these cryptograms fascinates people all over the world, and often gives people insight into the lives of their ancestors. Tens of thousands of other encrypted messages, ranging from simple notes created by children to encrypted postcards and diaries in people's attics, are known to exist. Several encrypted wartime military messages remain unsolved to this day. The breaking of the so-called Zimmerman Telegram during the First World War changed the course of history. Beatrix Potter's diary and the Voynich Manuscript were both encrypted - to date, only one of the two has been deciphered. The Zodiac Killer sent four encrypted messages to the police. This guide also covers many unsolved messages. It fills a gap left by outdated or very basic-level books. Very concise, very inclusive and easy to read', ED SCHEIDT 'Riveting', MIKE GODWIN 'Approachable and compelling', GLEN MIRANKER This practical guide to breaking codes and solving cryptograms by two world experts, Elonka Dunin and Klaus Schmeh, describes the most common encryption techniques along with methods to detect and break them. Read, enjoy, and test yourself on history's great still-unbroken messages!' JARED DIAMOND is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel Collapse and other international bestsellers 'This is THE book about codebreaking. 'The best book on codebreaking I have read', SIR DERMOT TURING 'Brings back the joy I felt when I first read about these things as a kid', PHIL ZIMMERMANN 'This is at last the single book on codebreaking that you must have.
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