Status Updates From The Code Book: The Secret H...

Sad that I only have two chapters left. What’s the word for this sadness that comes when you know a book is ending too soon?

Spectacular. It feels like I’m inside the minds of these geniuses.

Thank you for your service to your country, Rejewski. Sob.

Sooo. Victorian lovers sent enciphered messages to one another via agony posts in newspapers. At the same time, a whole bunch of amateur cryptoanalysts tried to break them for fun. Omgaaaah. The chaos.

This is FUN. I’m loving the mix of history, mathematics, diplomacy, statistics, science, geopolitics, and theology. How can we know if Soro is lying about not being able to break the Pope’s cipher? I need to know.

I’m only a couple of pages into chapter one and already I’m bemused. There’s a guy who shaved his head, had message written on it, grew his hair out, went to meet the recipient, and finally shaved his head to deliver the message. Jokes.