The Cracking Code Book: How to make it, break it, hack it, crack it

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Kahn’s analysis of American cryptographic operations during WWII is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the intelligence failures that preceded Pearl Harbor. Amongst many extraordinary examples, Simon Singh relates in detail the story of Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code and put to death by Elizabeth I; the strange history of the Beale Ciphers, describing the hidden location of a fortune in gold, buried somewhere in Virginia in the nineteenth century and still not found; and the monumental efforts in code-making and code-breaking that influenced the outcomes of the First and Second World Wars. I've just received a copy of Simon Singh's 'The Cracking Codebook' but, unfortunately, it's nothing more than a virtually identical (less the chapter on quantum computing) copy of 'The Code Book'. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages.

Whether your kids want to read a mystery book about code breaking, or maybe an historic fiction book about how codes were used, or perhaps they want to try cracking some codes in a puzzle book, there is a book on this list to suit everyone. An excellent primer by one of the world’s brightest cryptographers and best communicators of the subject.With immense ambition and even greater skill, the author of the bestselling phenomenon The Appeal weaves another completely unique and addictive mystery, revolving around a secret code found in a famous children’s author’s work by an English teacher who subsequently disappears, and her former pupil who years later decides to discover what happened to her. Cryptonomicon is a massive novel (918 pages) that stretches from the story of World War II codebreakers to today’s data havens. Driven by a passion to understand how nature works and to turn discoveries into inventions, she would help to make what the book’s author, James Watson, told her was the most important biological advance since his codiscovery of the structure of DNA.

Bacteria invented it, but the insight that won Doudna – a biochemist at the University of California, Berkeley – the Nobel prize in chemistry last year, along with French microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier, was that it could be adapted to edit genes in other organisms, including humans. The truth is people have been using codes throughout history to guard and pass along secret information that they don't want in the hands of their enemies (or nosy siblings! She and her collaborators turned a curiosity of nature into an invention that will transform the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA. Where better to start than German encoding equipment that confounded the Allies during World War Two?This is the book of my dreams: A super-clear, super-fun guide for solving secret messages of all kinds, from paper-and-pencil cryptograms to Enigma machines. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. As 75% of the workforce at Bletchley Park were women, Jan Slimming’s book, in which she explores the secret work undertaken there by her own mother, is a long-overdue must-read. New Paperbacks NEW PAPERBACKS [jsb_filter_by_tags count="15" show_more="10" sort_by="total_products"/] A selection of recent paperbacks.

Subtitled “Secrecy and Privacy in the New Code War”, Levy gives an excellent account of the development of modern cipher systems, including public key cryptography. In 1997, he published Fermat’s Last Theorem, which was a best-seller in Britain and translated into 22 languages.

An accessible work of military history that ranges across air, land and naval warfare, the book also touches on the story of early computer science.

Perhaps the most famous, and amongst the most imaginative and unconventional, was Alan Turing, so this book fully deserves a place on my list.Reuben, who has Down's syndrome, was trapped in a care home during the pandemic, spiralling deeper into a non-verbal depression. This anthology is a valuable complement to my first book, with a couple of dozen contributors: a mixture of some who worked at Bletchley Park during the war, and some who are professional historians.