The Code Book: The Secret History of Codes and Code-breaking

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Sul fronte del Pacifico, invece, l’oscuro eroe fu un ufficiale della marina americana, Joseph J. Rochefort: da una buia cantina a Pearl Harbor diresse l’operazione che portò ad intercettare e decifrare una serie di messaggi giapponesi, che si rivelarono decisivi nella vittoria della Battaglia delle Midway. Molto interessante la parte dedicata a Enigma, la complessa macchina messa a punto dai tedeschi per criptare le proprie comunicazioni. Gli Alleati riuscirono faticosamente a decrittare i messaggi tedeschi, grazie a un po’ di fortuna e molta applicazione, ma anche grazie al genio di Alan Turing (il matematico inglese che nell’occasione costruì i primi computer) e a Ian Fleming, che con alcune trovate degne di un romanzo di James Bond riuscì a recuperare preziosi documenti dei nazisti. Strongly recommended for anyone interested in historical ciphers. There are very few books dedicated specifically to the breaking of classical ciphers, with the best known still the 1939 book Cryptanalysis by Helen Fouché Gaines. This new book fills that gap, covering a large number of things never envisioned by Gaines; including hill climbing, the best known contemporary algorithm for breaking ciphers. There are plenty of practical examples and real-world success stories. Solve problems by applying their mathematics to a variety of routine and non-routine problems with increasing sophistication, including breaking down problems into a series of simpler steps and persevering in seeking solutions. A.J. Jacobs, New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically and Puzzled: A Deep Dive into riddles, brainteasers, and conundrums of all kinds

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Despite what the title says, the narrative is mostly focused on US and British efforts against the Germans and Japanese. Budiansky does a great job explaining both how codebreaking worked and how it impacted the big picture; he does cover the diplomatic ciphers but is mostly focused on the military ones. He also covers how the practice advanced in the 1930s, when primitive computers could use brute-force calculations to detect patterns that codemakers overlooked. He also describes how interservice and inter-Allied rivalry could be both trivial and disruptive to codebreaking efforts. Budiansky easily explains the nuances of the story without making the book tedious. He also doesn’t ignore the sorting/correlating mechanics that a lot of accounts skip over. A fabulous step-by-step guide on how to become an effective codebreaker. Is unique with its number of rich, illustrative, engaging and fun examples and stories. Ralph Erskine, co-editor of The Bletchley Park Codebreakers; member of the editorial board of Cryptologia A wonderful mix of ciphers, both famous and little-known, solved and unsolved. Beginners will be hooked on exploring the world of secrets in cipher, and those who have already been introduced to the field will find much that is new.This practical guide to breaking codes and solving cryptograms by two world experts, Elonka Dunin and Klaus Schmeh, describes the most common encryption techniques along with methods to detect and break them. It fills a gap left by outdated or very basic-level books. Imagine you've created a puzzle, but after many years your intended audience has failed to solve it. If you still want it solved, you have to start releasing clues. Some puzzles, such as the 1979 book Masquerade and the Decipher Puzzles, were only solved after clues were released. are 'the' and 'and', so if you see a group of three symbols that comes up quite a lot, they could stand for 'the' or 'and'.

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Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, author of the New York Times bestselling nonfiction thriller, The Spy Who Couldn’t Spell Theda Daniels-Race, PhD, M.B. Voorhies Distinguished Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Louisiana State University which exact edition. A spy operating in enemy territory would probably choose a book that would draw as little attention as possible if seenAlternatively, instead of whole words, the book cipher could use just the first letter of each word. The example code would then translate to FTDM. The advantage of