The Code Book
Simon Singh
411 p.
194 pages read
So far, I've read a whole lot of things. I've learnt about how Queen Marie of the Scots was finally put to death, how the unbreakable code was broken, and how British codebreakers played an important part in the Second World War. For instance, an Enigma machine is a machine that, when you type in a letter, it sends energy through a bunch of wires and lights up a letter which results as the substitution in cipher. Also, codebreakers in Bletchley Park, Britain's codebreaker team, cracked the German Enigma codes, and so prevented the war from ending three years later than it did. Also, at the moment I'm learning how American cryptographers had the idea of using the Navajo (Native American) language, it would create a virtually unbreakable code. There is so much about codes and ciphers and how to break them in this book. I'm really enjoying it. The quote from the book that I chose is;
"The war, instead of finishing in 1945, would have ended in 1948 had the Government Code and Cypher school not been able to read Enigma Cyphers and produce the Ultra intelligence."
~ Sir Harry Hinsley
Simon Singh
411 p.
194 pages read
So far, I've read a whole lot of things. I've learnt about how Queen Marie of the Scots was finally put to death, how the unbreakable code was broken, and how British codebreakers played an important part in the Second World War. For instance, an Enigma machine is a machine that, when you type in a letter, it sends energy through a bunch of wires and lights up a letter which results as the substitution in cipher. Also, codebreakers in Bletchley Park, Britain's codebreaker team, cracked the German Enigma codes, and so prevented the war from ending three years later than it did. Also, at the moment I'm learning how American cryptographers had the idea of using the Navajo (Native American) language, it would create a virtually unbreakable code. There is so much about codes and ciphers and how to break them in this book. I'm really enjoying it. The quote from the book that I chose is;
"The war, instead of finishing in 1945, would have ended in 1948 had the Government Code and Cypher school not been able to read Enigma Cyphers and produce the Ultra intelligence."
~ Sir Harry Hinsley
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