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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 — 28,687 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 — 23,409 ratings — published 2017
Cryptonomicon (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.23 — 116,228 ratings — published 1999
The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,506 ratings — published 1967
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,493,789 ratings — published 2003
Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,132 ratings — published 1993
Enigma (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.90 — 18,323 ratings — published 1995
The Rose Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.44 — 352,352 ratings — published 2021
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 — 29,570 ratings — published 2017
Inferno (Robert Langdon, #4)
by (shelved 3 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.90 — 585,679 ratings — published 2013
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,363,456 ratings — published 2000
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 — 8,580 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 — 921 ratings — published 1991
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 — 1,593 ratings — published 2001
Digital Fortress (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.70 — 660,753 ratings — published 1998
Origin (Robert Langdon, #5)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.90 — 353,442 ratings — published 2017
The Codebreaker's Secret (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.12 — 10,148 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 — 1,482 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 4.33 — 420 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 — 975 ratings — published 2022
X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.97 — 412 ratings — published 2018
The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.76 — 645,760 ratings — published 2009
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 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,799 ratings — published 2001
The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.34 — 36,606 ratings — published 1936
Alan Turing: The Enigma (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.75 — 11,887 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 — 278 ratings — published 2004
The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,313 ratings — published 1982
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 — 5,923 ratings — published 2004
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.92 — 43,115 ratings — published 2003
The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.27 — 25,097 ratings — published 2004
The Mathematics of Secrets: Cryptography from Caesar Ciphers to Digital Encryption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 4.03 — 76 ratings — published
Break the Code: Cryptography for Beginners (Dover Kids Activity Books)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 4.08 — 39 ratings — published 1996
The science of secrecy: The secret history of codes and codebreaking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 4.23 — 204 ratings — published 1999
Rational Points on Elliptic Curves (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 4.40 — 60 ratings — published 1992
Revealing Secrets: An unofficial history of Australian Signals intelligence and the advent of cyber (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 3.88 — 25 ratings — published
Enigma Myth Deciphered: Codebreakers, Commanders and Politicians (History of Information Security)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
The Women of Arlington Hall (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 4.30 — 21,101 ratings — published 2025
The Amateur (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,268 ratings — published 1981
The War Photographers (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 4.44 — 355 ratings — published
Operation Tulip (WW2 Secret Agent, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,171 ratings — published 2024
The Silk Code (WW2 Secret Agent #1)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,496 ratings — published 2023
Codebreaking: A Practical Guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 4.14 — 36 ratings — published 2020
Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 4.10 — 17,753 ratings — published 1932
The Ludwig Conspiracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 3.70 — 4,228 ratings — published 2011
Hold Strong (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 4.65 — 9,271 ratings — published 2025
The Time in Between (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 4.20 — 50,546 ratings — published 2009
The Last Twelve Miles (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,265 ratings — published 2024
People of the Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 4.04 — 154,810 ratings — published 2008
“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
“Some rich men go in for art collections, gay times on the Riviera, or extravagant living, but they all get satiated. That's why I stick to scientific experiments, spending money to discover valuable things that universities can't afford. You never get sick of too much knowledge”
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