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The bookshelf of a cipher nerd.
Books on Cryptography and code-breaking.
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The Mathematics of Secrets: Cryptography from Caesar Ciphers to Digital Encryption
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4.03 avg rating — 75 ratings
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
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4.30 avg rating — 28,613 ratings
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Decrypted Secrets: Methods and Maxims of Cryptology
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4.03 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Encyclopedia of Cryptology
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The Code-Breakers
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4.18 avg rating — 1,505 ratings
score: 180,
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The Decipherment of Linear B
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4.12 avg rating — 514 ratings
score: 172,
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Breaking the Maya Code
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4.01 avg rating — 768 ratings
score: 166,
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Colossus: The First Electronic Computer
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B. Jack Copeland (Editor)
4.05 avg rating — 148 ratings
score: 163,
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Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
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4.26 avg rating — 8,505 ratings
score: 159,
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Handbook Of Applied Cryptography
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4.02 avg rating — 124 ratings
score: 154,
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Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C
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4.21 avg rating — 2,133 ratings
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Cryptography: A Very Short Introduction
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3.57 avg rating — 499 ratings
score: 147,
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The Joy of Cryptography
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3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
score: 98,
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Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government—Saving Privacy in the Digital Age
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Steven Levy (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 1,591 ratings
score: 97,
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Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing
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3.87 avg rating — 253 ratings
score: 95,
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Codes, Ciphers and Other Cryptic and Clandestine Communication: Making & Breaking Secret Messages from Hieroglyphs to the Internet
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score: 94,
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Malicious Cryptography: Exposing Crytovirology
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3.63 avg rating — 41 ratings
score: 93,
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Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II
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3.98 avg rating — 391 ratings
score: 92,
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Crypto Wars: The Fight for Privacy in the Digital Age: A Political History of Digital Encryption
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Disappearing Cryptography: Information Hiding: Steganography and Watermarking (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Software Engineering and Programming)
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Peter Wayner (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 38 ratings
score: 88,
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Cryptology
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4.03 avg rating — 34 ratings
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PGP: Pretty Good Privacy
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3.72 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption
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3.98 avg rating — 43 ratings
score: 85,
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The Beale Treasure New History of a Mystery
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3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization
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3.90 avg rating — 1,307 ratings
score: 83,
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Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency from the Cold War Through the Dawn of a New Century
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3.91 avg rating — 1,795 ratings
score: 82,
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The Zimmermann Telegram
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4.05 avg rating — 5,082 ratings
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Cryptonomicon
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 115,991 ratings
score: 80,
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The Story of Magic, Memoirs of an American Cryptologic Pioneer
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4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Keys of Egypt: The Race to Crack the Hieroglyph Code
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score: 78,
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How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Step-by-Step Guide to Teach Yourself, Revised Edition
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4.22 avg rating — 688 ratings
score: 75,
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Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment
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3.97 avg rating — 34 ratings
score: 74,
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The Story of Writing
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3.86 avg rating — 368 ratings
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Light Over Liskeard
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3.67 avg rating — 1,220 ratings
score: 71,
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The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies
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Jason Fagone (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 23,326 ratings
score: 70,
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Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II
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Liza Mundy (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 29,409 ratings
score: 69,
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The Book Of Satoshi: The Collected Writings of Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto
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Phil Champagne (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 702 ratings
score: 68,
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Navajo Code Talkers
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3.92 avg rating — 520 ratings
score: 66,
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Navajo Weapon: The Navajo Code Talkers
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Seizing The Enigma: The Race To Break The German U-boat Codes, 1939-1943
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3.94 avg rating — 916 ratings
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Station X: The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park
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3.97 avg rating — 968 ratings
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The Hut Six Story: Breaking the Enigma Codes
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3.92 avg rating — 267 ratings
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The Navajo Code Talkers
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3.53 avg rating — 141 ratings
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Enigma: The Battle For The Code (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore (2004-10-07)
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3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
score: 60,
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Alan Turing: The Enigma
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3.75 avg rating — 11,866 ratings
score: 59,
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Turing and the Universal Machine: The Making of the Modern Computer
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3.44 avg rating — 140 ratings
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Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World
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3.93 avg rating — 1,792 ratings
score: 55,
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In Code: A Mathematical Journey by Sarah Flannery (2000-03-20)
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3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
score: 53,
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Introduction to the Analysis of the Data Encryption Standard
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