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An exploration of codes and cryptography offers a discussion of concepts and terminologies and moves to a wide-ranging chronicle beginning with the ancient Polybius and concluding with a look at contemporary techniques and an examination of current privacy issues. 22,500 first printing.

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A breezy survey of codes, ranging from the betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots to the nature of credit card security. The New York Times This fascinating history of cryptology offers many remarkable stories. Christian Science Monitor Fascinating, clever, and informative A thoroughly satisfyingbook! Choice

A breezy survey of codes, ranging from the betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots... to the nature of credit card security. -- - The New York Times This fascinating history of cryptology offers many remarkable stories. -- - Christian Science Monitor Fascinating, clever, and informative... A thoroughly satisfyingbook! -- - Choice

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Rudolf Kippenhahn is the award-winning author of One Hundred Billion Suns and the former director of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics inMunich. For ten years he was a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Göttingen. Ewald Osers (1917-2011) was an award-winning translator of Czech and German.

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