This book will be shipped USPS MEDIA RATE (in a box) which can be slower (2 to 8 days according to the USPS) but is cheaper. 14.95.) The journalist-author of this massive, richly informative, and eminently readable book has been an amateur cryptologist since 1943, when he was thirteen, and for many years President of the American Cryptogram Association. The upper right hand corners on the first four pages are bent, and there's some rippling of the first 90 pages (lower right hand corner) but none after that. THE CODEBREAKERS: The Story of Secret Writing. The former owner stamped his name on the free end paper at the front AND back of the book. David Kahn, a recently visiting historian at the National Security Agency, is the world's leading expert on the history of cryptology, and the author of Hitler's Spies, Seizing the Enigma, and Kahn on Codes, as well as articles in numerous popular and technical journals. There are a few white scuff marks on the cover. For 4,000 years, fierce battles have been waged between codemakers and codebreakers.The story of these battles is civilization's secret history, the hidden account of how wars were won and lost, diplomatic intrigues foiled, business secrets stolen, governments ruined, computers hacked.”īook chapters include: The First 3,000 Years, The Rise of the West, The Era of the Black Chambers, A War of Intercepts: I and II, Two Americans, Censors, Scramblers and Spies, NSA, The Pathology of Cryptology, Ancestral Voices, Messages from Outer Space… The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet: Author: David Kahn: Edition: illustrated: Publisher: Simon and Schuster, 1996: ISBN.
“Man has created codes to keep secrets and has broken codes to learn those secrets since the time of the Pharaohs. Kahn tells us the history of codes and ciphers, how they're made, how they're broken, and the many roles they've played since the dawn of civilization in war, business, diplomacy, and espionage. THE CODEBREAKERS: The Story of Secret Writing by David Kahn/Hardback copy with NO dust jacket/1967/Macmillan Press/1,164 pages Whod have thunk that I would ever be here, addressing an NSA audience Because when my book, The Codebreakers, was published in 1967, just 35 years and one. The Codebreakers With a new chapter on computer security issues, this updated and revised history of codes and codebreaking takes the reader from the protocryptography of Egyptian Pharoah Khnuumhotep II through to the speculations of scientists solving messages from outer space.
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