Blog Entries tagged 'Cryptography' http://www.trchome.com Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:17:40 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.trchome.com/component/option,com_myblog/show,Books-The-Code-Book---The-Evolution-of-Secrecy.html/Itemid,115/ <p>The Code Book - The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots to Quantum Cryptography, by Simon Singh</p><p>If you have any interest in the history of codemaking and codebreaking (or more accurately ciphermaking and cipherbreaking ), this would be a great place to start. Singh begins with early codebreaking ingenuity such as the Caesar shift (yes, that Caesar) where alphabets are substituted for others, and the powerful technique of frequency analysis for breaking substitution ciphers. < [...] rsambandam@trchome.com Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:00:00 +0100 Cryptography Books