Cracking the Cipher Challenge • Simon Singh • GOTO 2016

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam 2016
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Simon Singh - Science Writer based in London

ABSTRACT
In "The Code Book", a history of cryptography, the author Simon Singh included ten encrypted messages with a prize of £10,000 for the first person or team to decipher all of them. Thousands of amateur and professional codebreakers took up the Cipher Challenge, but it took over a year [...]

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Simon Singh • The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets • https://amzn.to/3w9WcRs
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