New Book

Perry E. Metzger perry at piermont.com
Fri Jul 26 15:39:58 PDT 1996



pjn at 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






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