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Cryptography Books
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 205 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.30 — 28,895 ratings — published 1999
Cryptonomicon (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.23 — 116,785 ratings — published 1999
Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,136 ratings — published 1993
The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,513 ratings — published 1967
Digital Fortress (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.71 — 663,753 ratings — published 1998
Cryptography Engineering: Design Principles and Practical Applications (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.22 — 407 ratings — published 2010
Serious Cryptography: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 37 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.28 — 377 ratings — published
The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)
by (shelved 27 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.76 — 652,709 ratings — published 2009
Inferno (Robert Langdon, #4)
by (shelved 25 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.90 — 591,655 ratings — published 2013
Real-World Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.55 — 125 ratings — published
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 — 1,603 ratings — published 2001
Cryptanalysis: A Study of Ciphers and Their Solution (Dover Brain Games & Puzzles)
by (shelved 21 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.89 — 166 ratings — published 1939
Alan Turing: The Enigma (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.75 — 11,943 ratings — published 1983
Introduction to Modern Cryptography: Principles and Protocols (Chapman & Hall/CRC Cryptography and Network Security Series)
by (shelved 19 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.31 — 139 ratings — published 2007
Handbook Of Applied Cryptography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.02 — 125 ratings — published 1996
Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,663 ratings — published 1998
Practical Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.16 — 321 ratings — published 2003
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 — 23,656 ratings — published 2017
Understanding Cryptography: A Textbook for Students and Practitioners (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.20 — 240 ratings — published 2009
An Introduction to Mathematical Cryptography (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)
by (shelved 17 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.23 — 82 ratings — published 2008
A Course in Number Theory and Cryptography (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 114)
by (shelved 14 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.21 — 57 ratings — published 1899
Foundations of Cryptography: Volume 1, Basic Tools (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.15 — 33 ratings — published 1997
Enigma (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.90 — 18,621 ratings — published 1995
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.96 — 30,409 ratings — published 2017
Enigma: The Battle for the Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,119 ratings — published 2000
Cryptography and Network Security (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.11 — 399 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 — 756 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 3.94 — 934 ratings — published 1991
Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.98 — 395 ratings — published 2000
Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,795 ratings — published 2000
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 10 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,514,519 ratings — published 2003
The Rose Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.44 — 364,856 ratings — published 2021
Cryptography: Theory and Practice (Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications)
by (shelved 10 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.74 — 98 ratings — published 1995
Mr. Churchill's Secretary (Maggie Hope Mystery, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.75 — 34,545 ratings — published 2012
Station X: The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.97 — 974 ratings — published 1998
CODEBREAKERS: INSIDE STORY OF BLETCHLEY PARK: The Inside Story of Bletchley Park (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.73 — 464 ratings — published 1993
Cryptography: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.56 — 504 ratings — published 2002
Codebreaker: The History of Codes and Ciphers, from the Ancient Pharaohs to Quantum Cryptography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.47 — 225 ratings — published 2006
Decrypted Secrets: Methods and Maxims of Cryptology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.03 — 35 ratings — published 1995
Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.07 — 471 ratings — published 1998
The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.81 — 4,275 ratings — published 2010
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 — 1,322 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 — 3,702 ratings — published 2013
The Rule of Four (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.29 — 38,536 ratings — published 2004
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 — 1,809 ratings — published 2001
Serious Cryptography, 2nd Edition: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.33 — 21 ratings — published
The Mathematics of Secrets: Cryptography from Caesar Ciphers to Digital Encryption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as cryptography)
avg rating 4.03 — 77 ratings — published
The Hut Six Story: Breaking the Enigma Codes (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.91 — 271 ratings — published 1982
Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as cryptography)
avg rating 3.97 — 27,316 ratings — published 2011
Secret Key Cryptography: Ciphers, from simple to unbreakable (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as cryptography)
avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published
“Cryptography exists because information asymmetry is survival.”
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“One of the most singular characteristics of the art of deciphering is the strong conviction possessed by every person, even moderately acquainted with it, that he is able to construct a cipher which nobody else can decipher. I have also observed that the cleverer the person, the more intimate is his conviction.”
― Passages from the Life of a Philosopher
― Passages from the Life of a Philosopher












