TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bauer,Craig P.
TI  - Secret history: the story of cryptology 
T2  - Discrete mathematics and its applications
SN  - 9781466561861
AV  - QA76.9.A25 B384 2013
U1  - 005.8/2 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Boca Raton
PB  - CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group
KW  - Data encryption (Computer science)
KW  - Computer security
KW  - Cryptography
KW  - History
KW  - Ciphers
KW  - COMPUTERS / Security / Cryptography
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - MATHEMATICS / General
KW  - MATHEMATICS / Combinatorics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "Codes are a part of everyday life, from the ubiquitous Universal Price Code (UPC) to postal zip codes. They need not be intended for secrecy. They generally use groups of letters (sometimes pronounceable code words) or numbers to represent other words or phrases. There is typically no mathematical rule to pair an item with its representation in code. A few more examples will serve to illustrate the range of codes"--
ER  -