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Read this book! The author traces the history and affect of cryptography through the centuries and makes the concepts deceptively simple. Lucid and well-written the book explains the need, importance and place of cryptography in our lives.
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“Whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first call promising.”
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― Enemies of Promise
“Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience—buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello—become new all over again.”
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“Images are powerful; they can distort memories, recreate reality and rewrite history.”
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“Open the pod bay doors, Hal.”
― 2001: A Space Odyssey
― 2001: A Space Odyssey
“The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.”
― The Issa Valley
― The Issa Valley
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