How to Tell a Secret Tips, Tricks and Techniques for Breaking Codes and Conveying Covert Information

Name: How to Tell a Secret Tips, Tricks and Techniques for Breaking Codes and Conveying Covert Information
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ISBN: 9780061137945

ISBN-10: 0061137944

ISBN-13: 9780061137945

Edition: 2007

Authors: P. J. Huff, J. G. Lewin

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Discover the world's most cryptic stories-hush-hush operations, hidden agendas, and infamous secrets, both new and ancient-in this illustrated history that unveils the terms, events, people, institutions, technology, and tools of the trade. Explore secret communications in the military, daily life, world history, and popular culture as you get the low-down on cryptanalysis, military codes, secret clubs and decoder rings, invisible ink, baseball signals, spy novels, computer encryption, hobo codes, and more. You may think that nobody could hide a secret in front of your nose. If that's the case, try to crack Kryptos, a never-before-solved puzzle, reproduced on pages 234-235. …

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 4/10/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Introduction



A Cipher Primer


Elements of Secret-Telling


Ciphers


Codes


Steganography



The Ancients


The Rebus


Pictograms


The Rosetta Stone and Hieroglyphics


Wax Tablets and Slave Pates


Runes, Ogham, and Archaic Languages


Windtalkers



Hiding in Plain Sight


Slaves' Signals


The Hobo Code


Urban Graffiti


Tattoos


Secret Clubs and Decoder Rings


Signals in Professional Sports


Army Signals in the Field



The Devices of Secrecy


Courier Devices


Encryption Devices


Japanese Purple and German Enigma


SIGSALY


The Rise of Computer Encryption



Hide 'n' Seek


Getting It Past the Censors


Censorship in Wartime


Camouflage and Disguise


MIS-X


Microdots and Misdirection


Fun with Pixels


Data Havens



National Secrets


Secrets of Presidential Health


A Tradition of Secrets


Spies of the Revolution


Secrets of the New Nation


Civil War Intelligence


Development of Intelligence Services


Deception and Misdirection


The Manhattan Project



Some Famous Secrets Revealed


Secrets Lost


Secrets Revealed


Secrets Discerned: Magic Operations


Secrets Leaked: Watergate


Secrets Recorded: Monicagate


Secrets Published: The Pentagon Papers


Secrets Sold: Robert Hanssen


Secrets Yet to Be Revealed: Kryptos


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index


Picture Credits