What I loved about Singh’s book is his ability to make multiple complex concepts fairly accessible to a general audience.

Drawing on a wealth of historical anecdotes and technical explanations, Singh skillfully explores the relationship between codes and ciphers, and the personalities that created them, broke them, and shaped them again. Singh dives deep as he takes readers on a captivating journey through the evolution of cryptography. They have decided the outcomes of battles and led to the deaths of kings and queens.” This topic is far more important to history than many people are aware of and this is the driving force behind his decision to write about it. As he says early in his intro, “History is punctuated with codes. The book covers the evolution of codes and ciphers, from the ancient Greek scytale to modern-day public key encryption, and everything in between. “The Code Book” by Simon Singh is a fascinating journey through the history of cryptography, the science of secret communication.

As long as there has been communication, there have been efforts to keep communication secret.

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