The Code Book

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• Crack baby crack

  I have just installed encryption software on my home computer. Called Pretty Good Privacy, it is a military-strength program which (when using a sufficiently large mathematical 'key'), ensures that my emails, and any other files I choose to encrypt, ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• Pretty Good Privacy

  The English mathematician G.H. Hardy, who worked in the purest of all mathematical fields, the theory of numbers, used to boast in his patrician way that nothing he did in mathematics would ever be useful. He must be turning in his grave at developme ... (read full critics)

  lrb published on Sat, 4 Sep 2010

2 Reviews

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  If you have any interest in codes, you will like this book. Although it involves some history, it is not boring at all. The codes illustrated is not really too difficult to understand. Overall, an interesting and worth-reading book.

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• Around the time I was learning programming.

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• English Books
• Paperback 416 Pages
• Edition: New Ed
• ISBN-10: 1857028899
• ISBN-13: 9781857028898
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Pub date: Jun 08, 2000
• Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover and Others
• In other languages: other languages 繁體書, Libri Italiani, Norske Bøker

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