The Code Book
On one of my previous posts, a friend recommended The Code Book by Simon Singh. I got one but being an occassional reader, it took me almost a couple of months to finish reading through it. Its a great book with an interesting account of evolution of cryptography.
With each new encryption algorithm, there is an initial feeling that its "secure enough" and not breakable practically. But through the history, we have seen most of them being broken.
posted by Kalyan @ 3:27 PM
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Not too sure if you will pick this message up or not, but I did come across that book some years ago and it was a facinating read. One of the few books that i can still recall from. I think Discovery even made a documentary on the book. If you are in the mood for some more encryption heavy (well not too heavy) book pick up this book called The Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll. Its a real life story that accounts a tale of how an astromoner from Berkeley tracked down some hackers who where using his systems to hack into the nsa.
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