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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 — 29,140 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 — 23,993 ratings — published 2017
Cryptonomicon (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.23 — 117,353 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 — 1,524 ratings — published 1967
Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,135 ratings — published 1993
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,542,034 ratings — published 2003
The Rose Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.44 — 381,821 ratings — published 2021
Enigma (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.91 — 18,951 ratings — published 1995
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 — 30,621 ratings — published 2017
Inferno (Robert Langdon, #4)
by (shelved 3 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.90 — 599,440 ratings — published 2013
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,416,206 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 3.91 — 1,818 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 — 9,084 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 3.94 — 948 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 — 1,331 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 — 1,611 ratings — published 2001
Digital Fortress (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.71 — 667,825 ratings — published 1998
Origin (Robert Langdon, #5)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.90 — 370,198 ratings — published 2017
The Codebreaker's Secret (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,704 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 4.20 — 1,591 ratings — published 2021
Joe Rochefort's War: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.34 — 437 ratings — published 2011
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 — 1,016 ratings — published 2022
Salem's Cipher (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,130 ratings — published
X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.96 — 428 ratings — published 2018
Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,681 ratings — published 1998
Serious Cryptography: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.29 — 380 ratings — published
Cryptography Engineering: Design Principles and Practical Applications (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.22 — 407 ratings — published 2010
The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.77 — 661,567 ratings — published 2009
The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.34 — 37,324 ratings — published 1936
Alan Turing: The Enigma (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.75 — 12,009 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 3.85 — 282 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 — 5,968 ratings — published 2004
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.94 — 46,756 ratings — published 2003
The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.28 — 25,309 ratings — published 2004
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 4.31 — 11,391 ratings — published 2021
Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 4.21 — 705 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 4.02 — 1,288 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 4.31 — 139 ratings — published 2007
The Voynich Codex (Vatican Secret Archive Thrillers Book 11)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 4.07 — 565 ratings — published
Midnight Blue-Light Special (InCryptid, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 4.09 — 11,287 ratings — published 2013
Discount Armageddon (InCryptid, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 3.86 — 18,721 ratings — published 2012
Monster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 3.83 — 8,971 ratings — published 2009
Guilty by Definition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 3.91 — 12,192 ratings — published 2024
The Petrus Prophecy (Vatican Secret Archive #3)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 4.50 — 2,395 ratings — published
Queens of Code: Inspiring True Stories from NSA’s Computing Women (Labor and Technology)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
“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
