17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
pjn@nworks.com writes:
I was in the local Barnes and Noble Bookstore and I saw a book that looked interesting. It is called The Ultimate Spy Book written by H. Keith Melton and it contains a large wealth of information about the writing and breaking of cyphers from the time of Queen Elizabeth to the NSA. It is about $30, but it is well worth it...
The canonical text on the subject remains "The Codebreakers", a book which literally changed history given that Whit Diffie got interested in crypto because of it. Sparked my interest and that of many others, too... Perry