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My name is Rajan Sambandam and my day job is Chief Research Officer at TRC. Insightful ideas interest me. Insightology is a place where ideas of interest to me are brought together. Regular sections include posts on interesting topics & research I have seen, book recommendations, people with insightful ideas and links to articles that are interesting. Subject areas include business, economics, psychology, science, technology and sports. If you have thoughts to share, feel free to send them to me at insightologist@trchome.comThis email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it .
Tag >> Cryptography

Books: The Code Book

Posted by: Rajan Sambandam in Cryptography, Books on Jun 04, 2008

The Code Book - The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots to Quantum Cryptography, by Simon Singh

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.

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