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Codebreaking: A Practical Guide
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If you liked Dan Browns Da Vinci Codeor want to solve similarly baffling cyphers yourselfthis is the book for you!A thrilling exploration of historys most vexing codes and ciphers that uses handson exercises to teach you the most popular historical encryption schemes and techniques for breaking them.Solve historys most hidden secrets alongside expert codebreakers Elonka Dunin and Klaus Schmeh, as they guide you through the world of encrypted texts. With a focus on cracking realworld document encryptionsincluding some crimebased coded mysteries that remain unsolvedyoull be introduced to the free computer software that professional cryptographers use, helping you build your skills with stateofthe art tools. Youll also be inspired by thrilling success stories, like how the first three parts of Kryptos were broken.Each chapter introduces you to a specific cryptanalysis technique, and presents factual examples of text encrypted using that schemefrom modern postcards to 19century newspaper ads, wartime telegrams, notes smuggled into prisons, and even entire books written in code. Along the way, youll work on NSAdeveloped challenges, detect and break a Caesar cipher, crack an encrypted journal from the movie The Prestige, and much more.Youll learn:How to crack simple substitution, polyalphabetic, and transposition ciphers How to use free online cryptanalysis software, like CrypTool 2, to aid your analysis How to identify clues and patterns to figure out what encryption scheme is being used How to encrypt your own emails and secret messagesCodebreaking is the most uptodate resource on cryptanalysis published since World War IIessential for modern forensic codebreakers, and designed to help amateurs unlock some of historys greatest mysteries.
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