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Género/Forma: | History |
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Tipo de documento | Libro |
Todos autores / colaboradores: |
David Kahn |
ISBN: | 0684831309 9780684831305 |
Número OCLC: | 59599150 |
Notas: | Originally published: New York: Macmillan, 1967; London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968. |
Descripción: | 1, 200 pages ; 24 cm |
Contenido: | CONTENTSPreface to the Revised EditionPrefaceA Few Words1. One Day of MagicTHE PAGENT OF CRYPTOLOGY2. The First 3,000 Years3. The Rise of the West4. On the Origin of a Species5. The Era of the Black Chambers6. The Contribution of the Dilettantes7. Crises of the Union8. The Professor, the Soldier, and the Man on Devil's Island9. Room 4010. A War of Intercepts: I11. A War of Intercepts: II12. Two Americans13. Secrecy for Sale14. Duel in the Ether: The Axis15. Duel in the Ether: Neutrals and Allies16. Censors, Scramblers, and Spies17. The Scrutable Orientals18. Russkaya Kriptologiya ("Russian Cryptology")19. N.S.A.SIDESHOWS20. The Anatomy of Cryptology21. Heterogeneous Impulses22. Rumrunners, Businessmen, and Makers of Non-secret Codes23. Ciphers in the Past Tense24. The Pathology of CryptologyPARACRYPTOLOGY25. Ancestral Voices26. Messages from Outer SpaceTHE NEW CRYPTOLOGY27. Cryptology Goes PublicBibliographyNotes to TextAcknowledgmentsNotes to IllustrationsIndex |
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Prepublication National Security Agency Evaluation, now declassified The book in its entirelty constitutes the most publicly revealing picture that has ever been presented of U.S. Sigint activities and the agencies engaged in this field. The New York Times Book Review A notable achievement...Mr. Kahn has presented the specialist and the general public with a lavishly comprehensive introduction to a subject of basic significance for both. Time Perhaps the best and most complete account of cryptography yet published. The Christian Science Monitor A literary blockbuster...for many evening of gripping reading, no better choice can be made than this book. The Washington Post Kahn has produced a tour de force...The volume is an anthology of a hundred detective stories, one more ingenious than the last, and all real, central to the fate of armies and kingdoms....Magnificent. Leer más
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