Simon Singh

The Code Book on CD-ROM
By Simon Singh

After 12 months of intense development, the interactive CD-ROM version of The Code Book  is now available. The CD-ROM contains tons of fascinating and dynamic material, including:

                1. Encryption tools,
                2. Code breaking tools,
                3. Coded messages to crack,
                4. Material for teachers, e.g., worksheets,
                5. A realistic, virtual Enigma cipher machine,
                6. A beginner's cryptography tutorial,
                7. A history of codes from 1000BC to 2000AD,
                8. Material for junior codebreakers,
                9. An animated section on quantum cryptography,
               10. Sections on public key crypto & RSA.

Note: The Code Book on CD-ROM will only work on PCs running Windows.

Download from SunSITE Northern Europe :

These ZIP files contain the complete contents of "The Code Book on CD-ROM" by Simon Singh. The CD was previously available for sale, and can now be freely downloaded for personal and educational use. All copyrights in the material remain. Although free to download, it has not been released into the public domain. The "Lite" version contains no video content but will download in less than one-tenth the time.

The Code Book CD-ROM (full - 598mb)
The Code Book Lite (42mb)
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The Code Book

The Secret History of Codes and Code Breaking
Ever since humans began writing, they have been communicating in code. This obsession with secrecy has had dramatic effects on the outcome of wars, monarchies and individual lives.

With clear mathematical, linguistic and technological demonstrations of many of the codes, as well as illustrations of some of the remarkable personalities behind them - many courageous, some villainous - The Code Book traces the fascinating development of codes and code-breaking from military espionage in Ancient Greece to modern computer ciphers, to reveal how the remarkable science of cryptography has often changed the course of history.

Amongst many extraordinary examples, Simon Singh relates in detail the story of Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code and put to death by Elizabeth I; the strange history of the Beale Ciphers, describing the hidden location of a fortune in gold, buried somewhere in Virginia in the nineteenth century and still not found; the monumental efforts in code-making and code-breaking that influenced the outcomes of the First and Second World Wars.

Now, with the Information Age bringing the possibility of a truly unbreakable code ever nearer, and cryptography one of the major debates of our times, Singh investigates the challenge that technology has brought to personal privacy today.

Dramatic, compelling and remarkably far-reaching, The Code Book will forever alter your view of history, what drives it and how private your last e-mail really was.

From: Simon Singh.net

 

 

 

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