Code Breaking History Exploration by Kippenhahn Rudolf (25 results)

Hardback. Condition: Good. Rich with vivid anecdotes from a history of coding and decoding and featuring three new chapters, this revised and expanded edition makes the often abstruse art of deciphering coded messages accessible to the general reader and reveals the relevance of c.

Paperback. Condition: Good. In Code Breaking, Rudolf Kippenhahn offers readers both an exciting chronicle of cryptography and a lively exploration of the cryptographer's craft. Rich with vivid anecdotes from a history of coding and decoding and featuring three new chapters, this revised and expanded edition makes the often abstruse art of deciphering coded messages accessible to the general reader and reveals the relevance of codes to our everyday high-tech society. A stylishly written, meticulously researched adventure, Code Breaking explores the ways in which communication can be obscured and, like magic, made clear again.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. Rich with vivid anecdotes from a history of coding and decoding and featuring three new chapters, this revised and expanded edition makes the often abstruse art of deciphering coded messages accessible to the general reader and reveals the relevance of c.

Hardcover. Condition: Vg. Dust Jacket Condition: Vg. First Edition. 283 pages. Black binding with silver lettering on spine. Charts and graphs scattered throughout the book. X-Library with the usual markings. Clear plastic protective dusst jacket cover glued down to binding. Photos of book on request.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Reprint edition. Very Good/Wraps (22144) A very good paperback with lightly rubbed covers. Clean, tight, unmarked. . 283.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 283 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First edition (so stated), translated from the German by Ewald Osers in collaboration with the author. In mint condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Original price of $29.95 printed on dust jacket front flap. Jacket now protected with paper backed polyester film. Book has no writing or marking.

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Reprint. 283 pages. Hardcover; H 23.5cm x L 15.5cm. Black dust jacket lightly rubbed. Black cloth spine with black boards. A still fairly crisp fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. With two Prefaces, four appendices, and Index. Features thirteen chapters titled as: "Secret Writing in War and Peace;" "Hidden Messages and Codebooks;" "Codebooks in World War I;" "He Came, He Saw, He Encoded;" "How a Monalphabetic Code is Cracked;" "Caesars in Rank and File;" "Keywords Without End;" "Shuffled Texts;" "From Coding Disk to Enigma;" "Enigma's Secret is Unveiled;" "The Arrival of the Computer;" "Encryption Quite Publicly;" and "Smart Cards, One-Way Functions, and Mousetraps." ISBN 0879519193.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. No remainder marks. No prior owner markings or bookplates. No jacket tears or chips and not price-clipped. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Woodstock. 1999. May 1999. Overlook Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0879519193. 283 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Michael Ian Kaye. keywords: Cryptography History Codes. DESCRIPTION - The achievements of cryptography-the art of writing and deciphering coded messages-have become a part of everyday life, especially in our age of electronic banking and the Internet. In this provocative work, Rudolf Kippenhahn offers readers both an exciting chronicle of cryptography and a lively exploration of the cryptographer's craft. Rich with vivid anecdotes from a history of coding and decoding, CODE BREAKING brings the often abstruse art of deciphering coded messages to the general reader and reveals the relevance of codes to our everyday high-tech society. A stylishly written, meticulously researched adventure, it will enthrall everyone who wants to know more about the ways in which communication can be obscured and, like magic, made clear again. inventory #26676. …

Hardcover. Condition: VERY FINE. A VERY FINE tight copy in a VERY FINE bright dj. , 1st Edition.

Octavo, black cloth & boards (hardcover), silver letters, 283 pp. Near Fine, with former-owner signature to ffep.; in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Code breaking has always played an essential role not only in the romance of espionage but, as importantly, in its reality. This reality continues today in an age of electronic banking and the Internet, with its emphasis on the coding and decoding of information. The achievements of cryptography -- the art of writing and deciphering coded messages -- have become a part of our everyday life. Its history, a narrative and a tapestry of fascinating developments, makes for marvelous reading. In this provocative work, Rudolph Kipperhan offers readers both an exciting chronicle of crytography as well as a lucid exploration of the constantly evolving art of coding and decoding languages. Codes have been used throughout history: Caesar sent letters to Cicero and Galileo hid his celestial discoveries in code; various popes resorted to coding messages to their supporters; Francis Bacon and Edgar Allan Poe were both ardent and gifted cryptographers; Thomas Jefferson was such a codemaster that he invented an encryption device named after him -- its modern version was still in use during World War II. Espionage, Cryptology, Codebreaking, Codebreakers, Sociology, Technology. yslic.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Decorated soft cover large 8vo. Ilustrated 283 very good clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. . NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.…

Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. UK1ST.EDIITON.1ST.PRINTING.VERY NEAR FINE HARDBACK IN NEEAR FINE DUSTWRAPPER. 12.Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng.

Soft cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 2d. Fine black cloth spine, black boards, very bright silver lettering on spine, 283 pages, illustrations throughout. DJ glossy black on front and back with pattern of numbers in background, tiny illustration of gold key too. DJ and book, both Very Fine.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. This copy is in new, unmarked condition quarter bound in black cloth to black paper covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Code breaking has always played a key role in espionage. Now, with the advent of electronic banking and wide-spread concerns about personal privacy, the issues surrounding the coding and decoding of information are more important than ever before' Ref CC 6. …

Broschur / paperback. Condition: Sehr gut. 283 p. Ill. Beigelegter Zeitungsausschnitt, Filzstift-Strich auf dem Fußschnitt, ansonsten ein sehr gutes und sauberes Exemplar ohne Anstreichungen. Einige farbige Illustrationen. / Enclosed newspaper clipping, felt-tip pen line on the foot cut, otherwise a very good and clean copy without markings. Some colored illustrations. // Contents: PREFACE -- PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION -- 1 SECRET WRITING IN WAR AND PEACE -- Radio operator Klausen transmits to Moscow -- The secret of the wax tablets -- The secret message to Count Sandorf -- How Mary, Queen of Scots, was betrayed -- The riddle of the Man in the Iron Mask -- Thomas Jefferson's wheel -- Signs on gravestones and walls -- The art of encoding -- 2 HIDDEN MESSAGES AND CODEBOOKS -- The explosive message in a harmless text -- Shakespeare as a matchmaker -- Playing dice in the air-raid shelter -- The hidden message in the account number -- Every book is unique -- From jargon to codebook -- The codebook of the Pope -- 3 CODEBOOKS IN WORLD WAR I -- The Magdeburg runs aground -- The signal book of the Magdeburg in Room 40 -- How was the United States to be kept out of the war? -- The Zimmermann telegram -- The telegram is decoded -- 4 HE CAME, HE SAW, HE ENCODED -- The secret writing of Julius Caesar -- A Caesar with a mnemonic -- The laws of shuffling -- Permutations -- The universal library -- A superfluous machine -- 5 HOW A MONALPHABETIC CODE IS CRACKED -- Edgar Allan Poe decodes to order -- Sherlock Holmes and the Dancing Men -- The frequent e and the infrequent q -- A secret text is decoded -- The foundlings of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung -- The deceitfulness of tapeworms -- Disguised frequencies -- Unfair play with Playfair -- Playfair in World War II -- 6 CAESARS IN RANK AND FILE -- The abbot who was not entirely trustworthy -- Blaise de Vigenère's tableau -- Blurred frequencies -- Decoding with a sledgehammer -- How a Vigenère cipher is cracked -- The rhythm of the keyword -- 7 KEYWORDS WITHOUT END -- Carl Sagan's Contact as a code worm -- It need not always be a Caesar -- Polybius's table -- Encoding with a number worm -- Chance has no memory -- Chance artificially produced -- Key worms in the telephone book -- 8 SHUFFLED TEXTS -- Anagrams -- Shuffled text against shuffled alphabet -- The template of the Austrian colonel -- Transposition with keyword -- Polybius in World War I -- 9 FROM CODING DISK TO ENIGMA -- The invention of the wheel -- Three inventors-but only one became rich -- The curse of the reflecting cylinder -- The radio signal without L -- Hitler's Enigma -- 10 ENIGMA'S SECRET IS UNVEILED -- 4 93 95 66 -- Wanted: young mathematicians with an interest in cryptology -- 101 -- The first six letters of the Enigma signals The German spy and the murdered chief of staff A bombe against Enigma Three mathematicians escape Rejewski's last decoding The Bletchley Park crowd The tragic story of Alan Turing The spy to whom Hitler disclosed his secrets Ultra's successful advance The Battle of the Atlantic Japanese radio signals from burning Berlin -- 104 -- 108 08 -- 11 THE ARRIVAL OF THE COMPUTER -- Other numerical systems -- Mathematics in a two-finger world -- Ciphers in the Telex system -- DES, the American standard system Encryption and authority -- 12. ENCRYPTION QUITE PUBLICLY -- The recipe for asymmetrical encryption -- Mr. White encodes, Mrs. Black decodes -- A short lesson on keys Numbers that cannot be divided Sieved numbers What still awaits exploration Prime number encryption -- Asymmetrical but fast -- 13 SMART CARDS, ONE-WAY FUNCTIONS, AND MOUSETRAPS -- Who am I? -- The plastic card -- The secret number: a simple version -- Encoded PINS -- Mathematical mousetraps -- My bank account is protected by a one-way function -- The computer in the cash card -- The plastic card as wallet -- Electronic signatures -- Electronic IDs -- APPENDIX A -- A homemade encrypting machine -- APPENDIX B -- Your computer as Enigma -- APPENDIX C -- How the three magic key numbers are determined -- APPENDIX D -- PGP, the encryption program from the Internet -- FURTHER READING -- INDEX. ISBN 9781585670895 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 468.…