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Crypto: 500 BC to World War II

By Luke Crouch

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A 60-minute overview of content from The Code Book by Simon Singh, covering secrecy from ancient Greece to Enigma machines used in World War II. This is a cursory, high-level, mostly-non-mathematical survey of centuries of crypto - good as an intro to crypto for developers and non-devs alike.

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A 60-minute overview of content from The Code Book by Simon Singh, covering secrecy from ancient Greece to Enigma machines used in World War II. This is a cursory, high-level, mostly-non-mathematical survey of centuries of crypto - good as an intro to crypto for developers and non-devs alike.

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A 60-minute overview of content from The Code Book by Simon Singh, covering secrecy from ancient Greece to Enigma machines used in World War II. This is a cursory, high-level, mostly-non-mathematical survey of centuries of crypto - good as an intro to crypto for developers and non-devs alike.