The Cracking Code Book: How to make it, break it, hack it, crack it

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the computer and artificial intelligence, and anticipated gay liberation by decades--all before his suicide at age forty-one. Here we are invited to consider the bravery and sacrifice of the spies who went behind enemy lines to steal code books from top German officials.

But Singh's mathematical prowess sometimes gets the better of his journalistic instincts, leading to technical descriptions that unnecessarily disrupt the narrative flow. He has spoken to a wide range of audiences, from cybersecurity experts and software developers at leading Silicon Valley tech companies such as Facebook, Dropbox, and PayPal, to academic audiences at universities, executives at business conferences, and the general public in a couple of hundred one-man theatre shows. Enigma – is a world expert and speaker on the Enigma machine and has delivered over 700 presentations and demonstrations (using his own, genuine wartime Enigma machine) to some 70,000 people around the world.Remarkables REMARKABLES Intriguing, stunning, or otherwise remarkable books These include fine editions, foreign publications that are exceptional for their interest or production, special editions and some first-rate books from very small publishers.

One of the earliest accounts of Bletchley and the Enigma, written by one of the most important codebreakers. Each one made an essential contribution, and it’s difficult to say whose, if any, was the most important. As an author of crypto books and a crypto blog, I regularly get requests to solve encrypted postcards.As a gay man born into an evangelical Christian family, my coming out story was wrought with pain, trauma, and separation from family and loved ones. They do the intellectual heavy lifting that will engage any reader in the science and art of encryption. With deep knowledge and skillful storytelling, Dunin and Schmeh capture the joy and power of codebreaking. For more than a decade, I led a team of experts trying to decipher the levels of meaning in the pop culture works of Dan Brown. The reader will learn how to use each cipher as well as the best approaches when attempting to attack an uncracked cipher with a step-by-step guide.