The Code Book
1999 • 412 pages
Ratings33
Average rating4.2
15
Ratings33
Average rating4.2
We don't have a description for this book yet. You can help out the author by adding a description.
Reviews with the most likes.
Very readable but downgraded my rating because it is now unfortunately a bit out of date
Beautiful insight into cryptography throughout history (up until 1999.). Much more interesting than I anticipated.
The most beautiful part is foreshadowing bitcoin, which today stands strong on the grounds of breakthrough concepts explained throughout the second half of the book.
About the history of encryption, with sometimes quite technical explanations offset by some memorable stories, like how the US used Navajos to communicate on the battlefield, in lieu of an unbreakable code.
Fascinating for anyone with who's even slightly geeky. The author makes this complex subject comprehensible and interesting, as he traces the history of codemakers vs codebreakers.
