Die Diktatur des schönen Scheins
ISBN:
9783442151776 (3442151775)
Edition language: Deutsch
The author explains the math, the context, and the reality of breaking encryption schema and concentrates on the breaking of the Enigma code with its various players and the moving parts of WW II and relates that to a modern plan for finding a secret cache of gold in the Philippines.The author even ...
So, I've consumed 3,000+ pages of Mr. Stephenson this year [I read 'Quicksilver' in early 2014 otherwise add another K], and there is no doubt the man spin a tale. While I (and most others) call the Baroque Cycle ['Quicksilver', 'The Confusion' and 'The System of the World'] historical novels, 'Cr...
2015 reread: In World War II, Bobby Shaftoe is a Marine, and Lawrence Waterhouse is a cryptographer. In the present, Randy Waterhouse is part of a tech start-up in the Phillipines. How are the two threads linked, other than by the mysterious Enoch Root?Okay, so this kitten squisher is a lot more com...
Vor kurzem habe ich einen sehr interessanten Artikel über Spionage an Tiefsee-Kommunikationskabeln gelesen: Messages in the Deep. Darin geht es um kupferne Kommunikationskabel, von denen ich eigentlich dachte, dass es nur ein paar gibt. Anscheinend gibt es aber 277 Unterseekabel, und 99% der interna...
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