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	"The Code Book" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		THE CODE BOOK: THE EVOLUTION OF SECRECY FROM MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS TO QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY, by Simon Singh.
		The Code Book is a highly entertaining guide to the world of enigmas and the peaks of human cleverness, an overview of world history seen through the x-ray goggles of a fun-loving scientist.
		Another theme of The Code Book is the ongoing struggle between code makers and code breakers, a dynamic Singh characterizes as "an intellectual arms race that has had a dramatic impact on the course of history." Certainly this was the case during the First and Second World Wars.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/books/99/12/02/THE_CODE_BOOK.html (897 words)

	Salon Books \| "The Code Book" by Simon Singh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy From Mary, Queen of Scots to Quantum Cryptography
		Singh goes beyond the technical details of cryptography to profile the people behind the codes; his book is full of enlivening biographical details and deft portraits of some of the quirkier figures in the history of mathematics, computer science, archaeology and diplomacy.
		The book's lone false note comes at the end, when Singh contemplates the cryptographic advances based on quantum physics that may appear in the 21st century.
	www.salon.com /books/review/1999/10/06/singh (762 words)

	The Code Book
		The constant tension between the two groups is a theme of the book; Singh implies that cryptography progresses precisely because of the constant pressure applied by code breakers.
		The Code Book progresses linearly through the long history of cryptography and cryptanalysis one anecdote at a time; Singh chooses historical events and/or personalities which represent pivotal moments in the state of the art.
		The Code Book presents cryptography through a story-telling mode that is infinitely more approachable than Schneier's Applied Cryptography, and may in fact provide a gateway to such tomes, or may be enough to satisfy a casual interest in the subject.
	www.unc.edu /~kome/inls187/bookReview.html (589 words)

	house arrest / book club
		Here's a list of the ten books that are currently closest to my bed – meaning they are on their way to being read.
		the code book is a very readable introduction to the history of codemaking and breaking.
		the book's early chapters are devoted to the history and use of simple codes and contain several examples that are easy to figure out.
	www.ashidome.com /blogger/bookclub_link.asp?c=35 (367 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Code Book: The Secret History of Codes and Code-breaking: Books: Simon Singh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Singh states from the beginning that the book has two aims; to chart the evolution of codes, and to show that the study of codes and cryptology is as relevant for today as ever.
		The history of codes and code breaking has been a struggle between the code makers, and the code breakers, with sometimes one and sometimes the other having the ascendancy.
		Just as code breaking and code making have been battling for many years, now that there are 'unbreakable codes' available, the debate has moved on to the need for security or the protection of individual freedoms.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Code-Book-Secret-History-Code-breaking/dp/1857028899 (1939 words)

	Review - The Code Book by Simon Singh
		The book traces the science of Cryptography from the very beginnings, when man first found that he had knowledge that he didn't want to share with other people, through the massive leaps made by the necessity for maintaining secrecy through wars, to the present day, and how computers are being used and into the future.
		For example, the story of Elizabeth the first and Mary, Queen of Scots is given a bit extra by the knowledge of events which finally prompted Elizabeth to sign the warrant ordering the execution, information obtained by Elizabeth's Spymaster which showed that Mary had been in communication with plotters against her.
		This is a book that appeals to the sneak in all of us, the need to know that which someone else would have kept from us.
	www.booklore.co.uk /PastReviews/SinghSimon/CodeBook/CodeBookReview.htm (579 words)

	Book: The Code Book
		The Code Book - The Evolution Of Secrecy From Mary, To Queen Of Scots To Quantum Crytography (1999)
		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.
	www.isi.edu /~jlacoss/details/2505.html (494 words)

	Amazon.com: The Code Book: The Evolution Of Secrecy From Mary, To Queen Of Scots To Quantum Cryptography: Books: Simon ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Amazon.com: The Code Book: The Evolution Of Secrecy From Mary, To Queen Of Scots To Quantum Cryptography: Books: Simon Singh
		Some of his examples are familiar, notably the Allies' decryption of the Nazis' Enigma machine during WWII; less well-known is the crucial role of Queen Elizabeth's code breakers in deciphering Mary, Queen of Scots' incriminating missives to her fellow conspirators plotting to assassinate Elizabeth, which led to Mary's beheading in 1587.
		The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh
	www.amazon.com /Code-Book-Evolution-Secrecy-Cryptography/dp/0385495315 (1989 words)

	EXPLODE THE CODE and Its Primers
		Tasks in the lessons of Books 1-6 include matching words to sharpen visual discrimination; matching words and sentences with appropriate pictures to strengthen reading comprehension; selecting, then copying, words from picture clues; sequencing letter sounds and reinforcing them kinesthetically by writing the whole word; reading for sentence comprehension; and spelling from memory for cumulative vocabulary.
		EXPLODE THE CODE 4: Compound words; common endings; rules for syllable division between double and different consonants, with open and closed syllables, with syllables ending in -y and -le, diphthong syllables, and three-syllable words.
		All the books have writing and spelling exercises before the stories that teach the new phonetic patterns and sight words.
	www.barbsbooks.com /explCODE.htm (1062 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Code Book, by Simon Singh, Hardcover
		Adapted from The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography, this version is modified for a younger audience.
		Codes such as Enigma, the Beale papers, and the Zimmermann telegram are dissected and discussed in an amiable fashion, suggesting that Singh tries hard not to be too dry and boring, but he is not entirely successful.
		The book really shines when talking about the use of the Navajo language during World War II to send messages that the enemy was unable to decode.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=0385729138 (1026 words)

	"The Code Book," By Simon Singh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		We have, effectively, unbreakable codes, which is okay for you and me because when I go back to London I can send you an e- mail.
		If those codes were jeopardized, were broken, than that would de-stabilize economies, de- stabilize our privacy as individuals, de- stabilize military balances.
		So, code makers have already got something new up their sleeve that they could use in such a situation.
	www.familyhaven.com /books/codebook.html (829 words)

	E2K02 - Book review : The Code Book
		Those few lines accurately sum up the necessity of codes and ciphers and by interpreting the unwritten message there, specifically states the requirement for the skills of the cryptoanalyst and the huge, expensive secret industries that now exist to suck in, or disseminate secret messages.
		The book is enjoyable to read and perplexes the brain, although Singh's own mathematical skills do seem a little unnecessary at times.
		The Code Book is not light reading nor is it to be considered a text book.
	www.cvni.net /radio/e2k/e2k002/e2k02book.html (596 words)

	The Code Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		I had seen this book on shelves but had always passed it by as I associated it with such flaky books as secret codes from the Bible and chariots of the gods.
		The book begins with a story about how the breaking of the personal code of Mary Queen of the Scots cost her head, literally.
		In a book full of highlights the two biggest for me was the real story behind who did the groundbreaking work on cracking the German Enigma and the development of the public key encryption protocol.
	www.bozemanlug.org /book-reviews/code-book.html (182 words)

	Code Book
		The sample code to geneate the format file and a sample dataset are basefmt.txt and base.txt respectively.
		Then you use the code w2py04p19.txt to generate a code book.
		Then the code to generate code book is w2py04p21.txt.
	www.umass.edu /nh/no_password/resources-sas_tools-code_book.html (142 words)

	The Code Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Code Book reveals the history of cryptography's strengths and weaknesses.
		Simon Singh brings codes to life by taking us on a journey with Mary Queen of Scots, whom was exuceted by Queen Elizabeth, for plotting the Queens murder in secret code found in letters.
		Codes are more than weapons and tools because they have altered the course of history especially during the First and Second World Wars.
	www.stkate.edu /~yng/CLASSES/106/Summer02/Rachelle/code1.html (197 words)

	The Code Book - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots to Quantum Cryptography is a book written by Simon Singh and published in 1999 by Doubleday of New York; ISBN 0-385-49531-5
		The Code Book covers a diverse set of historical topics including The Man in the Iron Mask, Arabic cryptography, Charles Babbage, the mechanisation of cryptography, the Enigma Machine, and the decipherment of Linear B and other ancient writing systems.
		The book is not footnoted, but does have a "Further Reading" section at the end which is organized by chapter.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Code_Book (247 words)

	The Code Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Some of the code techniques found in the book are sure to remind you about games children play.
		But breaking this code is a simple matter of matching words and phrases, as is well described in the book.
		This does not in any way reduce the value of this book, and it is safe to say that Simon Singh has again proven that he is a master of the art of composing popular science literature.
	www.hypography.com /article.cfm?id=27968 (661 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Code Book for Young People: How to Make It, Break It, Hack It, Crack It: Books: Simon Singh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Code Book is a delightful treatment of the subject of cryptography.
		The book started off with the story of Queen Mary of Scotland, and went on to cover the Caesar cipher, Vigenère cipher, the famous Enigma, the super-secret Colossus, and the modern day computer based encryption and decryption developments.
		The Code Book was intended for a young adult audience but also holds an ability to interest an adult readership as well.
	www.amazon.ca /Code-Book-Young-People-Crack/dp/0385729138 (1078 words)

	The Code Book by Simon Singh
		Her plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth and inherit the throne was uncovered by Francis Walsingham, the founder of the British secret service, through the cryptanalysis of his cipher secretary, Thomas Phelippes.
		ASCII code) and when confidentiality is required those sequences of numbers must somehow be encrypted in such a way that only the intended recipient can decrypt the message.
		The story of quantum cryptography is designed, I guess, to be the book’s grand finale, but unfortunately at this important point the book falls sadly short of the high expectations we have come to have of Singh.
	cam.qubit.org /users/artur/Popular/singhreview.html (1358 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Code Book: Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography: Books: Simon Singh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The relative dearth of non-technical books on the subject may be a reflection of its pretty technical foundations, which compel hard decisions about what to include and what to gloss over.
		Few are better qualified to take on the challenge than Simon Singh, the particle physicist turned science writer whose book Fermat's Last Theorem, recounting the dauntingly complex story behind the proof of this mathematical conjecture, deservedly became a No. 1 bestseller.
		Later chapters in the book deal with more complicated cyphers and codes yet Simon ensures the explanations are clear.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Code-Book-Science-Secrecy-Cryptography/dp/0385495323 (873 words)

	+Code books connection
		Code books exist to protect the public, as well as private end-users.
		As you read through the code book, determine which areas of this particular code apply to your project and make a note as to where they are.
		Ignorance of the codes is no excuse under the law.
	www.codebookcity.com (344 words)

	Marking Time » Blog Archive » The Code Book
		Just as he did with complex mathematical theories in Fermat’s Last Theorem, in The Code Book Simon Singh brings the equally complex world of cryptography to the general reader with seemingly effortless ease.
		The book is filled with easy to follow explanations and examples, and interesting anecdotes from the history of cryptography.
		I’m not sure that even with a call from the public that a government might necessarily respond as wished…it would have to be a pretty loud call I think, based on recent experience.
	www.markingtime.org /blog/2006/03/08/the-code-book (666 words)

	Nintendo Codes - GameCube N64 Game Boy SNES NES Gameboy Color Advance Game Cheats - by David Dayton
		The Code Book is now available in Plucker format for all Palm OS devices!
		The GB code is only used to refer to games that have no built-in support for the Game Boy Color.
		Every code in the book is preceded by a small ASCII arrow.
	codebook.potchgult.com (1209 words)

	Download the Code Book on CD-ROM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This CD-ROM was designed to accompany The Code Book, and is not an e-book.
		The download is a simple process, and we've put together a set of step-by-step instructions to make it as straightforward as possible.
		We have made every effort to ensure that The Code Book on CD-ROM will function correctly on any Windows-based computer.
	www.simonsingh.net /Code_Book_Download.html (217 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Code Book: the Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography: Books: Simon Singh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Amazon.ca: The Code Book: the Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography: Books: Simon Singh
		I picked up this book because I read the author’s previous book, Fermat’s Enigma, which is a lot more technical than The Code Book, but it’s an interesting tale nevertheless; non-technical readers can skip the meaningless stuff.
		There was however a section on language as code that I did not care for, but in all honesty Simon Singh writes at the beginning of the chapter that it is a bit of a detour and you do not have to read it.
	www.amazon.ca /Code-Book-Secrecy-Quantum-Cryptography/dp/0385495323 (1784 words)

	Formulas in the NEC Code Book - Mike Holt's Code Forum
		Its a code book not a math book.
		This Code is not intended as a design specification or an instruction manual for untrained persons.
		After all, the Code is a law book [with all it obfuscation and legalese, and the inspector can easily issue you a red for violating Kirscoff's law.
	www.mikeholt.com /code_forum/showthread.php?p=583609 (734 words)

	The Code Book by Simon Singh - Reviewed by David Skea - Eclectica Magazine v4n1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		I deliberately say the known present day as code making and code breaking is an on-going challenge where secrecy is all important.
		A good part of this book is about public-key cryptography and the why and how it is used.
		Those wanting more detail on their favourite code or code breaker would best look for a specific book on that topic.
	www.eclectica.org /v4n1/skea_singh.html (321 words)

	The Code Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Published in 1999, The Code Book was soon followed by The Science of Secrecy, a more formal text that became a Channel Four documentary.
		The Code Book CD "largely follows the structure of The Code Book, with chapters that focus on the birth of cryptography, Victorian ciphers, World Wars I and II, the Information Age and Quantum Cryptography.
		Most school children have an intrinsic interest in codes and ciphers because of the topic's association with spies and all that stuff.
	www.melbpc.org.au /pcupdate/2504/2504article10.htm (417 words)

	Powell's Books - The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh
		Powell's Books - The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh
		Codebreaker: The History of Codes and Ciphers, from the Ancient Pharaohs to Quantum Cryptography
		From the author of the bestselling Fermat's Enigma comes a compelling tour through the cloaked world of codes and code breaking, from Greek military espionage to Navajo code talkers to the frontiers of computer science.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=4-0385495323-0 (730 words)

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