The Hidden History of Code-Breaking: The Secret World of Cyphers, Uncrackable Codes, and Elusive Encryptions

 Moving between eras, historian and author Sinclair McKay tells of the most famous cyphers and codebreakers, ingenious spies and intelligence agents, poets and scientists who incorporated cryptography into their writings, and, of course, codes of all kinds. Readers will learn about Maya glyphs and Bible prophecies, the mysterious Voynich manuscript, the Enigma cipher machine, the messages that scientists send into space and the future of cryptography. Considerable attention is given to ancient writings, such as the inscription on the Rosetta Stone, and how to decipher them. Each chapter is accompanied by logic puzzles, codes and riddles that will make the reader feel like a cryptographer.

Sinclair McKay. The Hidden History of Code-Breaking: The Secret World of Cyphers, Uncrackable Codes, and Elusive Encryptions / Translated from English by Ivan Bogdanov; Scientific Editor Maxim Suravegin; Literary Editor Olga Barash. - M.: Alpina Publisher, 2023.