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The book announced a "cipher challenge" of a series of ten progressively harder ciphers, with a cash prize of £10,000, which has since been won.
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The Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots to Quantum Cryptography, reviewed by Jim Reeds
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The book is not footnoted but has a "Further Reading" section at the end, organized by chapter.
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
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This article is about the Simon Singh book. For other uses, see
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describes some illustrative highlights in the history of
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Index

Codebook (disambiguation)

Fourth Estate
Doubleday
ISBN
978-1-85702-879-9
OCLC
59459928
Simon Singh
Fourth Estate
Doubleday
cryptography
codes
ciphers
codebook
Man in the Iron Mask
Arabic
Charles Babbage
Enigma machine
Linear B
public-key cryptography
GCHQ
Pretty Good Privacy
quantum computing
quantum cryptography
Cipher
Code
Codebook
English
Polish

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