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Codes, Ciphers, Secrets and Cryptic Communication: Making and Breaking Secret Messages...
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by Fred B. Wrixon
Sales Rank: 257027
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Discount: 32 %
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Paperback: 704 pages
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers; New Ed edition September 1, 2005
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1579124852
ISBN-13: 978-1579124854
Product Dimensions:
7.6 x 6.7 x 1.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
Book Description
Covert communications have won or lost wars, exposed political intrigue, disguised secret religions and societies, and secured financial transactions. This immensely readable world history of clandestine communication—finally in paperback—includes illustrations, diagrams, and puzzles that instruct readers how to become amateur cryptographers. It’s the last word on secret languages!
About The Author
Fred B. Wrixon is an expert in codes, military history and espionage. He has written three books including Codes, Ciphers and Secret Languages, Codes and Ciphers and 2440 Questions and Answers. He often spends his free time exchanging code deciphering puzzles with friends. He lives in the Ohio River Valley.
Customer Reviews & Comments
This book is a history of codes, ciphers and secret forms of communication from ancient times until the present. It is the most complete and the most current of any such books I have ever found. Complete: I have read many books that talk about Rommel's army reading the codes sent by the American military attache in Cairo. But I didn't know that this was in the 'Black' code, and that the capture of the German radio outpost at Tel-el-Eisa revealed the fact that the Black code had been broken and that then the Allies began using the Black code with false information. Current: The U.S. Navy used a cipher machine during WW II called the ECM Mark II. Information on this machine was declassified in 1996 (60 years after the machine was adopted), and that information is included here. An interesting section of the book is on Unsolved Scripts. Here are some writing samples discovered by archaeologists that remain unsolved. This book does not go into modern computer based codes. These have gotten so complex that you need a book on them by themselves, as well as a degree in mathematics.
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