Mysterious messages : a history of codes and ciphers

Título
Mysterious messages : a history of codes and ciphers

Gary L. Blackwood

Resumen
From the ingenious ciphers of Italian princes to the spy books of the Civil War to the advanced techniques of the CIA, codes and code breaking have played important roles throughout history.

Fecha de publicación como intervalo
2009

Descripción física
170 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Edición
1st ed.

Contenido
Clay, wax and Greece -- The rise and fall of Rome -- Ham and Bacon -- A disk, a grille and a tableau -- Babington, beer and Baconian biliteralisim -- Prisons, pigpens and black chambers -- The two revolutions -- Security suffers some severe setbacks -- The blue and the gray (and the green and the brown) -- Agony, dancing men and buried treasure -- The manuscript, the machine and the Mexican message -- Romance, rum and Romaji -- Hounds, magicians and indians -- Bookies, spies and POWs -- Colossus, Lucifer and Kryptos.

4-7

A Junior Library Guild selection

Término de la materia
Cryptography -- History.
 
Ciphers -- History.

Autor añadido
Henry, Jason,

Síntesis
From the ingenious ciphers of Italian princes to the spy books of the Civil War to the advanced techniques of the CIA, codes and code breaking have played important roles throughout history.

ISBN
9780525479604

Información de publicación
New York, N.Y. : Dutton Children's Books, c2009.


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