If you’re interested in codes and ciphers, here’s a worthy addition to your summer reading list. Craig Bauer, one of the nation’s foremost authorities on the history of unsolved ciphers (he did a stint as Scholar-in-Residence at the NSA's Center for Cryptologic History), has just come out with a new book- Unsolved!: The History and Mystery of the World's Greatest Ciphers from Ancient Egypt to Online Secret Societies. It’s a great read that covers everything from ancient writings to modern cold cases and some of the more interesting cipher mysteries proliferating the internet today. There is a broad selection of material and Bauer does a great job of keeping it readable and interesting. Here’s a link: http://amzn.to/2rAaPdX
Published on June 28, 2017 13:07