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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Machine generated contents note: 1 THE CIPHER OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS 5 -- The birth of cryptography, the substitution cipher and -- the invention of codebreaking by frequency analysis --2 THE ANONYMOUS CODEBREAKER 51 -- The Vigenere cipher, why cryptographers seldom get credit -- for their breakthroughs and a tale of buried treasure --3 THE MECHANIZATION OF SECRECY 95 -- The Zimmermann telegram, the Enigma machine -- and how cryptography changed the courses of -- World Wars I and II --4 THE LANGUAGE BARRIER 152 -- The impenetrability of unknown languages, -- the Navajo code talkers of World War II -- and the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs --5 ALICE AND BOB Go PUBLIC 180 -- Modern cryptography, the solution to the so-called -- key-distribution problem and the secret history -- of nonsecret encryption --6 PRETTY GOOD PRIVACY 221 -- The politics of privacy, the future of cryptography -- and the quest for an uncrackable code.