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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.30 — 29,394 ratings — published 1999
The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.09 — 24,268 ratings — published 2017
Cryptonomicon (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.23 — 118,029 ratings — published 1999
The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,520 ratings — published 1967
Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,139 ratings — published 1993
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,564,483 ratings — published 2003
The Rose Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.44 — 396,019 ratings — published 2021
Enigma (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.91 — 19,206 ratings — published 1995
Joe Rochefort's War: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.34 — 441 ratings — published 2011
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.96 — 31,072 ratings — published 2017
Inferno (Robert Langdon, #4)
by (shelved 3 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.91 — 605,098 ratings — published 2013
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,438,739 ratings — published 2000
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 3 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,830 ratings — published 2001
Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.27 — 9,284 ratings — published 2011
Seizing The Enigma: The Race To Break The German U-boat Codes, 1939-1943 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.95 — 955 ratings — published 1991
The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,339 ratings — published 1982
Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government—Saving Privacy in the Digital Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,620 ratings — published 2001
Digital Fortress (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.71 — 670,915 ratings — published 1998
Origin (Robert Langdon, #5)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.90 — 376,660 ratings — published 2017
The Codebreaker's Secret (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.11 — 11,041 ratings — published 2022
The Woman All Spies Fear: Code Breaker Elizebeth Smith Friedman and Her Hidden Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,624 ratings — published 2021
Eavesdropping on the Emperor: Interrogators and Codebreakers in Britain's War With Japan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.80 — 5 ratings — published 2021
The Enigma Affair (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,031 ratings — published 2022
Salem's Cipher (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,320 ratings — published
X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.96 — 437 ratings — published 2018
Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,698 ratings — published 1998
Serious Cryptography: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.29 — 381 ratings — published
Cryptography Engineering: Design Principles and Practical Applications (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.22 — 409 ratings — published 2010
The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.77 — 668,090 ratings — published 2009
The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.34 — 37,623 ratings — published
Alan Turing: The Enigma (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.75 — 12,052 ratings — published 1983
The Voynich Manuscript: The Unsolved Riddle of an Extraordinary Book Which has Defied Interpretation for Centuries (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.84 — 284 ratings — published 2004
Decrypted Secrets: Methods and Maxims of Cryptology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.03 — 35 ratings — published 1995
PopCo (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.73 — 5,979 ratings — published 2004
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.92 — 43,847 ratings — published 2003
The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.28 — 25,413 ratings — published 2004
The Factory: The Official History of the Australian Signals Directorate, Vol 1 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 3.90 — 10 ratings — published
Stanley Johnston's Blunder: The Reporter Who Spilled the Secret Behind the U.S. Navy's Victory at Midway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 3.57 — 7 ratings — published
En Summa av Ögonblick: Tänk om matten som skapar din vardag aldrig upptäcktes? (Swedish Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 5.00 — 3 ratings — published
Cryptanalysis of Number Theoretic Ciphers (Computational Mathematics)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 3.50 — 8 ratings — published 2002
Understanding Cryptography: A Textbook for Students and Practitioners (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 4.21 — 244 ratings — published 2009
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 4.31 — 11,641 ratings — published 2021
Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 4.21 — 709 ratings — published
Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,333 ratings — published 2020
Post-Quantum Cryptography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 3.45 — 11 ratings — published 2008
Practical Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 4.16 — 320 ratings — published 2003
Understanding Cryptography: A Textbook For Students And Practitioners (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Introduction to Modern Cryptography: Principles and Protocols (Chapman & Hall/CRC Cryptography and Network Security Series)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 4.29 — 137 ratings — published 2007
The Voynich Codex (Vatican Secret Archive Thrillers Book 11)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 4.08 — 652 ratings — published
Midnight Blue-Light Special (InCryptid, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 4.09 — 11,329 ratings — published 2013
“The first step was usually very simple: count the letters in the cryptogram. In English, the most frequently used letter is E, the most frequent two-letter group is TH, and the most fre-quent three-letter group is THE. So if you count the letters in the ciphertext and the most common letter is B, it might stand for E, and if the most common three-letter group is NXB, it might stand for THE.
You can count other things in a cryptogram, like the total number of vowels and consonants, and how often particular let-ters or groups of letters appear before or after other letters. All of these counts give hints to the hidden structure. A frequency count can also reveal if the plaintext was written in English, German, French, Spanish, or some other language, because the frequency of letters in a language is like a unique signature. The most common six letters in German, starting with the most common, are E, N, I, R, T, S. In French, E, A, N, R, S, I. In Spanish, E, A, O, R, S, N.”
― The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies
You can count other things in a cryptogram, like the total number of vowels and consonants, and how often particular let-ters or groups of letters appear before or after other letters. All of these counts give hints to the hidden structure. A frequency count can also reveal if the plaintext was written in English, German, French, Spanish, or some other language, because the frequency of letters in a language is like a unique signature. The most common six letters in German, starting with the most common, are E, N, I, R, T, S. In French, E, A, N, R, S, I. In Spanish, E, A, O, R, S, N.”
― The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies
“The strength of a cryptographic system usually has less to do with its design than with the way people tend to use it. Humans are the weak link. Instead of changing keys or passwords at regular intervals, we use the same ones over and over, for weeks or months or years. We repeat the same words (such as "secret") at the start of multiple messages, or repeat entire messages multiple times, giving codebreakers a foothold. We choose key phrases that are easy to guess: words related to where we live or work, our occupation, or to whatever project we're working on at the moment. A couple of human mistakes can bring the safest cryptographic system in the world to its knees.”
― The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies
― The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies
