The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum
Cryptography.
Simon Singh brings life to an amazing story of
puzzles, codes, languages and riddles - revealing the
continual pursuit to disguise and uncover, and to work
out the secret languages of others.
Codes have influenced events throughout history, both
in the stories of those who make them and those who
break them. The betrayal of Mary Queen of Scots and the
cracking of the enigma code that helped the Allies in
World War II are major episodes in a continuing history
of cryptography.
In addition to stories of intrigue and warfare, Simon
Singh also investigates other codes, most tantalisingly
the Beale ciphers, an unbroken code that could hold the
key to a $20 million treasure.
