作者:
Simon Singh 出版社: Doubleday 副标题: The Evolution Of Secrecy From Mary, To Queen Of Scots To Quantum Cryptography 出版年: 1999-09-14 定价: USD 24.95 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9780385495318
Codes have decided the fates of empires, countries, and monarchies throughout recorded history. Mary, Queen of Scots was put to death by her cousin, Queen Elizabeth, for the high crime of treason after spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham cracked the secret code she used to communicate with her conspirators. And thus the course of British history was altered by a few sheets of cryp...
Codes have decided the fates of empires, countries, and monarchies throughout recorded history. Mary, Queen of Scots was put to death by her cousin, Queen Elizabeth, for the high crime of treason after spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham cracked the secret code she used to communicate with her conspirators. And thus the course of British history was altered by a few sheets of cryptic prose. This is just one link in humankind's evolutionary chain of secret communication, and just one of the fascinating incidents recounted in The Code Book, written by bestselling author Simon Singh.
Combining a superb storyteller's sense of drama and a scientist's appreciation for technical perfection, Singh traces the evolution of secret writing from ancient Greek military espionage to the frontiers of computer science. The result is an epic tale of human ingenuity, with examples that range from the poignant to the peculiar to the world-historical.
There is the case of the Beale ciphers, which involves Wild West escapades, a cowboy who amassed a vast fortune, a buried treasure worth $20 million, and a mysterious set of encrypted papers describing its whereabouts--papers that have baffled generations of cryptanalysts and captivated hundreds of treasure hunters.
A speedier end to a bloody war was the only reward that could be promised to the Allied code breakers of World Wars I and II, whose selfless contributions altered the course of history; but few of them lived to receive any credit for their top-secret accomplishments. Among the most moving of these stories is that of the World War II British code breaker Alan Turing, who gave up a brilliant career in mathematics to devote himself to the Allied cause, only to end his years punished by the state for his homosexuality, while his heroism was ignored. No less heroic were the Navajo code talkers, who volunteered without hesitation to risk their lives for the Allied forces in the Japanese theater, where they were routinely mistaken for the enemy.
Interspersed with these gripping stories are clear mathematical, linguistic, and technological demonstrations of codes, as well as illustrations of the remarkable personalities--many courageous, some villainous, and all obsessive--who wrote and broke them.
All roads lead to the present day, in which the possibility of a truly unbreakable code looms large. Singh explores this possibility, and the ramifications of our increasing need for privacy, even as it begins to chafe against the stated mission of the powerful and deeply secretive National Security Agency. Entertaining, compelling, and remarkably far-reaching, this is a book that will forever alter your view of history, what drives it, and how private that e-mail you just sent really is.
Included in the book is a worldwide Cipher Challenge--a $15,000 award will be given by the author to the first reader who cracks the code successfully. Progress toward the solution will be tracked on The Code Book website.
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0 有用 海马 2015-10-09 06:11:26
前面的若干章都是老生常谈包括enigma什么的也都是文献综述，最后一章的alice-bob密钥交换实验是全书精华，轻松理解量子密钥。不过量子计算机还是很遥远的。
0 有用 长个儿 2010-06-01 23:23:56
密码学 看了一半 有点意思 但是我数学无能 基本看完就忘
0 有用 MichiruK 2012-04-07 18:16:04
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0 有用 ROTCEV 2021-12-24 13:37:57
密码学发展史就是一部编码人和解码人比拼智慧和毅力，在恐惧和执念下持续缠斗的历史，每一次似乎都被困入了死路但是决不放弃的人，最终竟能从极致的黑暗中创造出一丝光亮，从无望的绝境中抓到一线生机。非常精彩的故事，加上作者高超的叙述技巧，读到停不下来，阅读体验就像开了高速巡航模式。面向大众的科普工作需要跨越的专业壁垒，不止有知识储备上的空白，更有语言体系的障碍（不是自然语言，而是学科语言，和进入“学术界”要... 密码学发展史就是一部编码人和解码人比拼智慧和毅力，在恐惧和执念下持续缠斗的历史，每一次似乎都被困入了死路但是决不放弃的人，最终竟能从极致的黑暗中创造出一丝光亮，从无望的绝境中抓到一线生机。非常精彩的故事，加上作者高超的叙述技巧，读到停不下来，阅读体验就像开了高速巡航模式。面向大众的科普工作需要跨越的专业壁垒，不止有知识储备上的空白，更有语言体系的障碍（不是自然语言，而是学科语言，和进入“学术界”要求掌握的学术黑话），多少知识就在语言之中。学术写作有太多没必要的gate-keeping，大多数时候故作高深只是怕被人挑错，真正的牛人不怕说大白话。 (展开)
0 有用 Fang 2011-05-24 02:14:34
很生动 又不失准确
0 有用 ROTCEV 2021-12-24 13:37:57
密码学发展史就是一部编码人和解码人比拼智慧和毅力，在恐惧和执念下持续缠斗的历史，每一次似乎都被困入了死路但是决不放弃的人，最终竟能从极致的黑暗中创造出一丝光亮，从无望的绝境中抓到一线生机。非常精彩的故事，加上作者高超的叙述技巧，读到停不下来，阅读体验就像开了高速巡航模式。面向大众的科普工作需要跨越的专业壁垒，不止有知识储备上的空白，更有语言体系的障碍（不是自然语言，而是学科语言，和进入“学术界”要... 密码学发展史就是一部编码人和解码人比拼智慧和毅力，在恐惧和执念下持续缠斗的历史，每一次似乎都被困入了死路但是决不放弃的人，最终竟能从极致的黑暗中创造出一丝光亮，从无望的绝境中抓到一线生机。非常精彩的故事，加上作者高超的叙述技巧，读到停不下来，阅读体验就像开了高速巡航模式。面向大众的科普工作需要跨越的专业壁垒，不止有知识储备上的空白，更有语言体系的障碍（不是自然语言，而是学科语言，和进入“学术界”要求掌握的学术黑话），多少知识就在语言之中。学术写作有太多没必要的gate-keeping，大多数时候故作高深只是怕被人挑错，真正的牛人不怕说大白话。 (展开)
0 有用 海马 2015-10-09 06:11:26
前面的若干章都是老生常谈包括enigma什么的也都是文献综述，最后一章的alice-bob密钥交换实验是全书精华，轻松理解量子密钥。不过量子计算机还是很遥远的。
0 有用 响黑白 2014-06-07 23:25:47
结合历史发展介绍密码和解密学的发展，很浅显的书。前面写得比较精彩，RSA加密算法部分数学的原理没有讲透彻，看得不够爽。不知道作者是不是有意为之。作者对目前发展出来的加密算法也太有信心了吧？我个人是相信加密算法一定有被破解的一天的。
0 有用 Gm-Tuzki 2012-06-09 23:38:44
Superb
0 有用 MichiruK 2012-04-07 18:16:04
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