西蒙·辛格,出生于英国南部萨默赛特郡,是印度旁遮普遗民后裔,曾在伦敦帝国学院学习物理,获得剑桥大学粒子物理学博士学位。前BBC资深节目制作人,其制作的《地平线:费马大定理》获得英国电影学院奖,同名科普书成为畅销书。《码书》是作者又一部心血之作,也是BBC系列专题《保密的科学》的底本,博得世界性声誉。
译者刘燕芬,台湾师范大学英语系毕业。曾任国中英语教师,现旅居德国,从事中-德、中-英文之笔译与口译,并教授中文。
Codes have decided the fates of empires, countries, and monarchies throughout recorded history. Mary, Queen of Scots was put to death by her cousin, Queen Elizabeth, for the high crime of treason after spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham cracked the secret code she used to communicate with her conspirators. And thus the course of British history was altered by a few sheets of cryptic prose. This is just one link in humankind's evolutionary chain of secret communication, and just one of the fascinating incidents recounted in The Code Book, written by bestselling author Simon Singh.
Combining a superb storyteller's sense of drama and a scientist's appreciation for technical perfection, Singh traces the evolution of secret writing from ancient Greek military espionage to the frontiers of computer science. The result is an epic tale of human ingenuity, with examples that range from the poignant to the peculiar to the world-historical.
There is the case of the Beale ciphers, which involves Wild West escapades, a cowboy who amassed a vast fortune, a buried treasure worth $20 million, and a mysterious set of encrypted papers describing its whereabouts--papers that have baffled generations of cryptanalysts and captivated hundreds of treasure hunters.
A speedier end to a bloody war was the only reward that could be promised to the Allied code breakers of World Wars I and II, whose selfless contributions altered the course of history; but few of them lived to receive any credit for their top-secret accomplishments. Among the most moving of these stories is that of the World War II British code breaker Alan Turing, who gave up a brilliant career in mathematics to devote himself to the Allied cause, only to end his years punished by the state for his homosexuality, while his heroism was ignored. No less heroic were the Navajo code talkers, who volunteered without hesitation to risk their lives for the Allied forces in the Japanese theater, where they were routinely mistaken for the enemy.
Interspersed with these gripping stories are clear mathematical, linguistic, and technological demonstrations of codes, as well as illustrations of the remarkable personalities--many courageous, some villainous, and all obsessive--who wrote and broke them.
All roads lead to the present day, in which the possibility of a truly unbreakable code looms large. Singh explores this possibility, and the ramifications of our increasing need for privacy, even as it begins to chafe against the stated mission of the powerful and deeply secretive National Security Agency. Entertaining, compelling, and remarkably far-reaching, this is a book that will forever alter your view of history, what drives it, and how private that e-mail you just sent really is.
Included in the book is a worldwide Cipher Challenge--a $15,000 award will be given by the author to the first reader who cracks the code successfully. Progress toward the solution will be tracked on The Code Book website.
揭开秘密的冲动是人类根深蒂固的天性。就是最不好奇的心,也会为即将得知他人的秘密而悸动。有些幸运的人能以解谜为业,我们大部分的人却得靠解开那些供消遣之用的矫造谜语来满足这种欲望。对一般人而言,侦探故事或纵横字谜便已足够,极少数人则是以破解玄秘的符号为志业。 约...
评分 评分 评分还是那个最会讲科学故事的西蒙.辛格,将密码学这个人类智力的巅峰对决演绎的淋漓尽致,我们仿佛在看一部惊险悬疑的大片,正反方的两位主角,编码和解码,使出浑身解数希望致对方于死地,随着两位主角的表演,各种引人入胜的故事,精彩华丽的道具,高深莫测的谋略纷纷展现,而最...
评分密码学首先是信息学,对信息的加密与解密就如同“盾”与“矛”,也如同这个世上没有最强的“盾”,也没有最尖锐的矛。 本书以递进式演绎过程介绍了密码学,就像推理小说般一样,你以为当前的加密方法是牢不可破的时候,总有比你更聪明的人将匕首刺了进来。如果将早期的信息隐匿...
非常有意思的一本书呀呀啊
评分很生动 又不失准确
评分结合历史发展介绍密码和解密学的发展,很浅显的书。前面写得比较精彩,RSA加密算法部分数学的原理没有讲透彻,看得不够爽。不知道作者是不是有意为之。作者对目前发展出来的加密算法也太有信心了吧?我个人是相信加密算法一定有被破解的一天的。
评分很生动 又不失准确
评分密码学 看了一半 有点意思 但是我数学无能 基本看完就忘
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