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The Codebreakers: the comprehensive history of secret communication from ancient times to the Internet

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CONTENTS

Preface to the Revised Edition

Preface

A Few Words

1. One Day of Magic

THE PAGENT OF CRYPTOLOGY

2. The First 3,000 Years

3. The Rise of the West

4. On the Origin of a Species

5. The Era of the Black Chambers

6. The Contribution of the Dilettantes

7. Crises of the Union

8. The Professor, the Soldier, and the Man on Devil's Island

9. Room 40

10. A War of Intercepts: I

11. A War of Intercepts: II

12. Two Americans

13. Secrecy for Sale

14. Duel in the Ether: The Axis

15. Duel in the Ether: Neutrals and Allies

16. Censors, Scramblers, and Spies

17. The Scrutable Orientals

18. Russkaya Kriptologiya ("Russian Cryptology")

19. N.S.A.

SIDESHOWS

20. The Anatomy of Cryptology

21. Heterogeneous Impulses

22. Rumrunners, Businessmen, and Makers of Non-secret Codes

23. Ciphers in the Past Tense

24. The Pathology of Cryptology

PARACRYPTOLOGY

25. Ancestral Voices

26. Messages from Outer Space

THE NEW CRYPTOLOGY

27. Cryptology Goes Public

Bibliography

Notes to Text

Acknowledgments

Notes to Illustrations

Index

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Series Title

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Call Number

652.8 KAH c

Publisher

New York : Scribner., 1996

Collation

xviii, 1181 hlm.; 24 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

684831309

Classification

652.8

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Media Type

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Carrier Type

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Edition

Revised and Updated

Subject(s)

Cryptography
Ciphers
Cryptography -- history

Specific Detail Info

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Statement of Responsibility

David Kahn

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