Colossus the secrets of Bletchley Parkś codebreaking computers

A brief history of cryptography from Caesar to Bletchley Park / Simon Singh -- How it began : Bletchley Park goes to war / Michael Smith -- The German Tunny machine / Jack Copeland -- Colossus, codebreaking, and the digital age / Stephen Budiansky -- Machine against machine / Jack Copeland -- D-Day...

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Weitere Verfasser: Copeland, Brian Jack (HerausgeberIn)
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Veröffentlicht: Oxford, New York, NY u.a. Oxford Univ. Press 2006
Ausgabe:1. publ.
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Zusammenfassung:A brief history of cryptography from Caesar to Bletchley Park / Simon Singh -- How it began : Bletchley Park goes to war / Michael Smith -- The German Tunny machine / Jack Copeland -- Colossus, codebreaking, and the digital age / Stephen Budiansky -- Machine against machine / Jack Copeland -- D-Day at Bletchley Park / Thomas H. Flowers -- Intercept! / Jack Copeland -- Colossus / Thomas H. Flowers -- Colossus and the rise of the modern computer / Jack Copeland -- The PC user's guide to Colossus / Benjamin Wells -- Of men and machines / Brian Randell -- The Colossus rebuild / Tony Sale -- Mr. Newman's section / Jack Copeland, with Catherine Caughey ... [et al.] -- Max Newman : mathematician, codebreaker, and computer pioneer / William Newman -- Living with Fish : breaking Tunny in the Newmanry and the Testery / Peter Hilton -- From Hut 8 to the Newmanry / Jack Good -- Codebreaking and Colossus / Donald Michie -- Major Tester's section / Jerry Roberts -- Setter and breaker / Roy Jenkins -- An ATS girl in the Testery / Helen Currie -- The Testery and the breaking of Fish / Peter Edgerley -- Dollis Hill at war / Jack Copeland, with David Bolam ... [et al.] -- The British Tunny machine / Gil Hayward -- How Colossus was built and operated : one of its engineers reveals its secrets / Harry Fensom -- Bletchley Park's Sturgeon : the Fish that laid no eggs / Frode Weierud -- German teleprinter traffic and Swedish wartime intelligence / Craig McKay
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XVI, 462, [16] S
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24cm
ISBN:019284055X
0-19-284055-X
9780192840554
978-0-19-284055-4