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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. The best book on the history of cryptography ever. Kahn takes you back in time so skillfully that you feel you're there. I loved this book so much that, even owning an older copy, I purchased the newer edition just for the update. As a reference, it's indispensable; as a history it's authoritative and, just as a damned good story, it's eminently re-readable. (  ) BMK | Nov 26, 2009 |  I don't believe there has been any more comprehensive history of cryptography written. The updated version brings the history to the end of the twentieth century. Every style of cryptography, from every culture, is covered in this book. Very well researched and well written. It is a bit long... But it's worth the time. (  ) Arkholt | Sep 28, 2009 | Great book that gives you the complete history of cryptography from ancient times until the fifties. Good decision to end it there. Although it's a history book, not a cryptography book, it provides enough explanation to gradually start understanding what encryption is about, especially for the non-expert. Great anecdotes, like Queen Mary was beheaded because her cryptographers failed, and Philip van Marnix van St Aldegonde, poet who wrote the Dutch national hymn, also was the first cryptographer in the Netherlands. Everybody who is involved with cryptography, or a subject even related to that, should read this book. Historians should read it too. You should, too. (  ) xtien | Jun 10, 2007 | cnb | Jun 3, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
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Clandestine HUMINT and covert action | Intelligence dissemination management |
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