abstract:The Codebreakers – The Story of Secret Writing (ISBN 0-684-83130-9) is a book by David Kahn, published in 1967 comprehensively chronicling the history of cryptography from ancient Egypt to the time of its writing. The United States government attempted to have the book altered before publication, and succeeded in part.
The enigmatic VoynichManuscript, a mysterious book that has frustrated codebreakersandlinguistsforacentury, waspennedon15th-centuryparchment pages, according toU.S.researchers.
If you finish Singh's code book and want to tax your brain even more, go back to David Kahn's 1, 200-page TheCodebreakers, a classic that came out in 1967 and was recently updated.
"Tony Sale's tribute to the wartime codebreakers is awe-inspiring and we are seeking resources to present the rebuilt Colossus so that generations to come will be able to understand its significance, " he said.