Simon Singh:the code book - review

As I posted earlier, I have been reading Simon Singh's 'The Code Book' and I have now finished it, in fact I have re-read some of the more interesting chapters again.

This is a brilliant book charting the history of cryptography and its opposite number cryptoanalysis.  It is no wonder that some computing degree courses use this book as a course text book.  It gives a thorough explanation of how the Nazi Enigma codes were broken and the brilliant work done by the Bletchley Park experts in achieving that.  It also goes into the deciphering of ancient scripts of extinct languages such as the Linear B tablets of Bronze Age Greece.

Simon Singh: the Code book

I have just bought Simon Singh's "the code book: The Secret History of Codes and Code-breaking".  This was recommended to me on a Youtube video about Alan Turing and the breaking of the Nazi Enigma codes.