Codebreaking : a practical guide

Dunin, Elonka2020

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Elonka Dunin, codebreaker and an expert on the world's most famous unsolved codes, and Klaus Schmeh, crypto-blogger, describe the best-known traditional encryption techniques along with powerful methods to break them. In this book you can learn about: Beatrix Potter's encrypted dairy, and how to read it. The Zodiac Killer's four encrypted messages and how one of these was broken. How to solve encrypted letters, postcards and diaries with numerous examples provided. How to find free software tools that help you break the majority of pencil-and-paper ciphers. Many famous unsolved encrypted messages, such as the Voynich Manuscript, the final passage on the CIA's Kryptos sculpture, and the remaining cryptograms left by the Zodiac Killer.