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21) Digital fortress
Author
Language
English
Description
A former National Security Agency programmer threatens to release a mathematical formula that will allow organized crime and terrorism to skyrocket, unless the code-breaking computer that is used to keep them in check--but that violates civil rights--is not exposed to the public.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
The end of days has been predicted for the last two thousand years. But now, without warning, it is upon us. Braverman 'Bravo' Shaw, member of a secret Franciscan splinter sect, has survived a battle as old as time itself: the battle between good and evil. Working with his once-blind sister, Emma, and his confessor, Fra Leoni, Bravo went to war with the Fallen, Lucifer's advance guard and emerged with The Book of Deathly Things-- Lucifer's first and...
24) Inferno
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Robert Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Sienna Brooks, a doctor he hopes will help him recover his memories. Together, they race across Europe and against the clock to stop a madman from unleashing a global virus that would wipe out half of the world's population.
25) Doublespeak
Author
Series
Lena Stillman novels volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
266 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Lieutenant Lena Stillman has been left, nearly alone, on her code-breaking mission in remote Alaska. World War II has been over for a month, but due to crimes committed a lifetime ago, Lena is still under the control of the powerful Miss Maggie. Shaken by her role in the disappearance of Corporal Link Hughes--and by her own misjudgment of his character--Lena yearns for an opportunity to redeem them both. Then she receives a shocking message containing...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Maggie Hope has come a long way since serving as a typist for Winston Churchill. Now she's working undercover for the Special Operations Executive in the elegant but eerily silent city of Paris, where SS officers prowl the streets in their Mercedes and the Ritz is draped with swastika banners. Walking among the enemy is tense and terrifying, and even though she's disguised in chic Chanel, Maggie can't help longing for home. But her missions come first....
28) A good American
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the best code breaker the USA ever had and how he and a small team within NSA created a surveillance tool that could pick up any electronic signal on Earth, filter it for targets, and render results in real time.
Author
Series
Robert Langdon volume 2
Publisher
Umbriel
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
557 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
Español
Author
Language
English
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Description
In this Christian-themed historical romance, a woman's life is changed forever after she becomes a Navy cryptographer. The year is 1915, and Emma Shuster's knowledge of cipher systems has earned her a position working on top secret missions in the Navy. As Emma works closely with a handsome lieutenant, she finds herself falling in love, and embarking on one of the most thrilling adventures of her life.
31) The codebreaker
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
Follow the fascinating story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the groundbreaking cryptanalyst whose painstaking work decoding thousands of messages for the U.S. government would send infamous gangsters to prison and bring down a massive, near-invisible Nazi spy ring in WWII. A suburban wife and mother who led a secret double life, her remarkable contributions to the science of cryptology would only come to light decades after her death when classified...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
England, 1942. The Nazis relentless Blitz may have paused, but London's nightly blackouts continue. Now, under the cover of darkness, a madman is brutally killing and mutilating young women in eerie and exact re-creations of Jack the Ripper's crimes. What's more, he's targeting women who are reporting for duty to be Winston Churchill's spies and saboteurs abroad. The officers at MI-5 quickly realize they need the help of special agent Maggie Hope...
34) Windtalkers
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Language
English
Formats
Description
A battle-weary Marine is assigned to guard--and ultimately befriends--a young Navajo soldier who has been trained to be a code talker. This code, the Navajo code, and the men who knew the code, were to be guarded as they went into action. It was the unspoken duty of the Marine to kill the Navajo soldier before he could be taken prisoner of war by the Japanese. This is the one wartime code that was never broken by the enemy.
Author
Language
English
Description
Spring 1942. The United States is reeling from the blow inflicted at Pearl Harbor, but is determined to turn the tide. The key comes from Commander Joe Rochefort, a little known "code breaker" who cracks the Japanese military encryption. Admiral Chester Nimitz will know precisely what the Japanese are planning. On the Japanese side, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's key subordinates are Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, aging and infirm, and Admiral Tamon Yamaguchi,...
Author
Publisher
Center for Cryptologic History, National Security Agency
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 online resource (65 pages) : portrait
Language
English
Description
A biography of Brigadier John Tiltman, cryptanalyst extraordinaire, whose work proved of inestimable value to both U.S. and UK analytic efforts during WWII and into the Cold War.
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (287 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Da Vinci code: A murder inside the Louvre, and clues in Da Vinci paintings, lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years, which could shake the foundations of Christianity.
Angels & demons: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon works with a nuclear physicist to solve a murder and prevent a terrorist act against the Vatican during one of the significant events within the church.
39) Salem's cipher
Author
Series
Salem's cipher novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Salem Wiley is a genius cryptanalyst, courted by the world's top security agencies ever since making a breakthrough discovery in her field of quantum computing. She's also an agoraphobe, shackled to a narrow routine by her fear of public places. When her mother's disappearance is linked to a plot to assassinate the country's first viable female presidential candidate, Salem finds herself both target and detective in a modern-day witch hunt. Drawn...
Author
Series
Homeward Trails volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
415 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jack Miller stumbles through the Civil War, winding up a telegrapher and cryptographer for the army. In the field with General Sherman in Georgia, he is captured along with his precious cipher key. His captor, Hamilton Buckley, thinks he should have been president of the Confederacy, not Jefferson Davis. Jack doubts Buckley's sanity and longs to escape. Buckley's kindhearted niece, Marilla, might help him--but only if Jack helps her achieve her own...
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