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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 210 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.30 — 29,419 ratings — published 1999
Cryptonomicon (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.23 — 118,110 ratings — published 1999
Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,139 ratings — published 1993
The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,520 ratings — published 1967
Digital Fortress (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.71 — 671,254 ratings — published 1998
Cryptography Engineering: Design Principles and Practical Applications (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.22 — 409 ratings — published 2010
Serious Cryptography: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 39 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.29 — 381 ratings — published
The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)
by (shelved 27 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.77 — 668,863 ratings — published 2009
Inferno (Robert Langdon, #4)
by (shelved 25 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.91 — 605,790 ratings — published 2013
Real-World Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.55 — 130 ratings — published
Introduction to Modern Cryptography: Principles and Protocols (Chapman & Hall/CRC Cryptography and Network Security Series)
by (shelved 22 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.29 — 137 ratings — published 2007
Cryptanalysis: A Study of Ciphers and Their Solution (Dover Brain Games & Puzzles)
by (shelved 22 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.89 — 166 ratings — published 1939
Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government—Saving Privacy in the Digital Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,622 ratings — published 2001
Alan Turing: The Enigma (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.75 — 12,054 ratings — published 1983
Understanding Cryptography: A Textbook for Students and Practitioners (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.21 — 244 ratings — published 2009
Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,700 ratings — published 1998
Practical Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.16 — 320 ratings — published 2003
Handbook Of Applied Cryptography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.02 — 125 ratings — published 1996
An Introduction to Mathematical Cryptography (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)
by (shelved 18 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.22 — 82 ratings — published 2008
The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.09 — 24,297 ratings — published 2017
A Course in Number Theory and Cryptography (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 114)
by (shelved 15 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.19 — 57 ratings — published 1899
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.96 — 31,125 ratings — published 2017
Enigma (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.91 — 19,235 ratings — published 1995
Enigma: The Battle for the Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,141 ratings — published 2000
Foundations of Cryptography: Volume 1, Basic Tools (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.15 — 33 ratings — published 1997
Cryptography and Network Security (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.10 — 400 ratings — published 2008
Code Warriors: NSA's Code Breakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.72 — 764 ratings — published 2016
Seizing The Enigma: The Race To Break The German U-boat Codes, 1939-1943 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.95 — 957 ratings — published 1991
Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.99 — 396 ratings — published 2000
Station X: The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.98 — 981 ratings — published 1998
Cryptography: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.56 — 506 ratings — published 2002
Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,800 ratings — published 2000
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 10 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,566,998 ratings — published 2003
The Rose Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.44 — 397,610 ratings — published 2021
Mr. Churchill's Secretary (Maggie Hope Mystery, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.75 — 35,479 ratings — published 2012
Decrypted Secrets: Methods and Maxims of Cryptology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.03 — 35 ratings — published 1995
Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.08 — 474 ratings — published 1998
Codebreakers: The Inside Story of Bletchley Park (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.73 — 470 ratings — published 1993
The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.81 — 4,383 ratings — published 2010
Cryptography: Theory and Practice (Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications)
by (shelved 9 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.74 — 98 ratings — published 1995
Codebreaker: The History of Codes and Ciphers, from the Ancient Pharaohs to Quantum Cryptography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.46 — 228 ratings — published 2006
The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,339 ratings — published 1982
Serious Cryptography, 2nd Edition: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.29 — 31 ratings — published
The Mathematics of Secrets: Cryptography from Caesar Ciphers to Digital Encryption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.05 — 78 ratings — published
The Hut Six Story: Breaking the Enigma Codes (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.89 — 285 ratings — published 1982
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,761 ratings — published 2013
Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency from the Cold War Through the Dawn of a New Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,831 ratings — published 2001
Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,904 ratings — published 2015
COPELAND:ESSENTIAL TURING PAPER: Seminal Writings in Computing, Logic, Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, and Artificial Life plus The Secrets of Enigma (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.25 — 142 ratings — published 2004
Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.97 — 27,856 ratings — published 2011
“here’s a toast to Alan Turing
born in harsher, darker times
who thought outside the container
and loved outside the lines
and so the code-breaker was broken
and we’re sorry
yes now the s-word has been spoken
the official conscience woken
– very carefully scripted but at least it’s not encrypted –
and the story does suggest
a part 2 to the Turing Test:
1. can machines behave like humans?
2. can we?”
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born in harsher, darker times
who thought outside the container
and loved outside the lines
and so the code-breaker was broken
and we’re sorry
yes now the s-word has been spoken
the official conscience woken
– very carefully scripted but at least it’s not encrypted –
and the story does suggest
a part 2 to the Turing Test:
1. can machines behave like humans?
2. can we?”
―
“Imagine a young Isaac Newton time-travelling from 1670s England to teach Harvard undergrads in 2017. After the time-jump, Newton still has an obsessive, paranoid personality, with Asperger’s syndrome, a bad stutter, unstable moods, and episodes of psychotic mania and depression. But now he’s subject to Harvard’s speech codes that prohibit any “disrespect for the dignity of others”; any violations will get him in trouble with Harvard’s Inquisition (the ‘Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion’). Newton also wants to publish Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, to explain the laws of motion governing the universe. But his literary agent explains that he can’t get a decent book deal until Newton builds his ‘author platform’ to include at least 20k Twitter followers – without provoking any backlash for airing his eccentric views on ancient Greek alchemy, Biblical cryptography, fiat currency, Jewish mysticism, or how to predict the exact date of the Apocalypse.
Newton wouldn’t last long as a ‘public intellectual’ in modern American culture. Sooner or later, he would say ‘offensive’ things that get reported to Harvard and that get picked up by mainstream media as moral-outrage clickbait. His eccentric, ornery awkwardness would lead to swift expulsion from academia, social media, and publishing. Result? On the upside, he’d drive some traffic through Huffpost, Buzzfeed, and Jezebel, and people would have a fresh controversy to virtue-signal about on Facebook. On the downside, we wouldn’t have Newton’s Laws of Motion.”
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Newton wouldn’t last long as a ‘public intellectual’ in modern American culture. Sooner or later, he would say ‘offensive’ things that get reported to Harvard and that get picked up by mainstream media as moral-outrage clickbait. His eccentric, ornery awkwardness would lead to swift expulsion from academia, social media, and publishing. Result? On the upside, he’d drive some traffic through Huffpost, Buzzfeed, and Jezebel, and people would have a fresh controversy to virtue-signal about on Facebook. On the downside, we wouldn’t have Newton’s Laws of Motion.”
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