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"The Code Book by Simon Singh"

Date Submitted: 10/04/2004 10:45:53
Category: / History / War & Conflicts
Length: 9 pages (2449 words)
By reading the book "The Code Book" by Simon Singh, I have learned a lot about codes, and how people have hidden messages. This book talks about: the history codes, how the codes were made and broken, and the many types of codes there are. "The Code Book" explains the difference between cryptography and cryptology. I have also learned many terms that are associated with codes and code breaking. Cryptography has been used as early …
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…Kanpur Institute of Technology, claim to have found a fast and elegant way to predict very large prime numbers. If this proves to be true then the RSA code will be highly vulnerable since it relies highly on the complexity of finding very large prime numbers. If this code is vulnerable it will greatly affect online commerce and anything having to do with electronic databases or purchases. The war between the cryptographer and cryptoanalyst continues.
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