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Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
1: The Cipher of Mary Queen of Scots The birth of cryptography, the substitution cipher and the invention of codebreaking by frequency analysis
2: The Anonymous Codebreaker The Vigenère cipher, why cryptographers seldom get credit for their breakthroughs and a tale of buried treasure
3: The Mechanization of Secrecy The Zimmermann telegram, the Enigma machine and how cryptography changed the courses of World Wars I and II
4: The Language Barrier The impenetrability of unknown languages, the Navajo code talkers of World War II and the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs
5: Alice and Bob Go Public Modern cryptography, the solution to the so-called key-distribution problem and the secret history of nonsecret encryption
6: Pretty Good Privacy The politics of privacy, the future of cryptography and the quest for an uncrackable code
The Codebreaker’s Challenge
Appendices
Acknowledgments
Further Reading
Picture Credits
About the Author
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