The bookshelf of a cipher nerd.

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The Mathematics of Secrets: Cryptography from Caesar Ciphers to Digital Encryption
The Mathematics of Secrets: Cryptography from Caesar Ciphers to Digital Encryption really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 75 ratings
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography 4.30 avg rating — 28,488 ratings
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Decrypted Secrets: Methods and Maxims of Cryptology
Decrypted Secrets: Methods and Maxims of Cryptology 4.03 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Encyclopedia of Cryptology
Encyclopedia of Cryptology really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Code-Breakers
The Code-Breakers 4.18 avg rating — 1,502 ratings
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The Decipherment of Linear B
The Decipherment of Linear B 4.12 avg rating — 512 ratings
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Breaking the Maya Code
Breaking the Maya Code 4.01 avg rating — 758 ratings
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Colossus: The First Electronic Computer
Colossus: The First Electronic Computer 4.05 avg rating — 148 ratings
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Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII 4.26 avg rating — 8,399 ratings
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Handbook Of Applied Cryptography
Handbook Of Applied Cryptography 4.02 avg rating — 124 ratings
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Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C
Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C 4.21 avg rating — 2,132 ratings
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Cryptography: A Very Short Introduction
Cryptography: A Very Short Introduction 3.56 avg rating — 495 ratings
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The Joy of Cryptography
The Joy of Cryptography 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government—Saving Privacy in the Digital Age
Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government—Saving Privacy in the Digital Age 4.04 avg rating — 1,588 ratings
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Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing
Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing 3.87 avg rating — 252 ratings
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Codes, Ciphers and Other Cryptic and Clandestine Communication: Making & Breaking Secret Messages from Hieroglyphs to the Internet
Codes, Ciphers and Other Cryptic and Clandestine Communication: Making & Breaking Secret Messages from Hieroglyphs to the Internet really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Malicious Cryptography: Exposing Crytovirology
Malicious Cryptography: Exposing Crytovirology 3.63 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II
Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II 3.98 avg rating — 389 ratings
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Crypto Wars: The Fight for Privacy in the Digital Age: A Political History of Digital Encryption
Crypto Wars: The Fight for Privacy in the Digital Age: A Political History of Digital Encryption liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Disappearing Cryptography: Information Hiding: Steganography and Watermarking (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Software Engineering and Programming)
Disappearing Cryptography: Information Hiding: Steganography and Watermarking (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Software Engineering and Programming) 3.68 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Cryptology
Cryptology 4.03 avg rating — 34 ratings
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PGP: Pretty Good Privacy
PGP: Pretty Good Privacy 3.72 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption
Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption 3.98 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The Beale Treasure New History of a Mystery
The Beale Treasure New History of a Mystery 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization
The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization 3.90 avg rating — 1,302 ratings
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Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency from the Cold War Through the Dawn of a New Century
Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency from the Cold War Through the Dawn of a New Century 3.91 avg rating — 1,791 ratings
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The Zimmermann Telegram
The Zimmermann Telegram 4.06 avg rating — 5,054 ratings
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Cryptonomicon
Cryptonomicon 4.23 avg rating — 115,697 ratings
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The Story of Magic, Memoirs of an American Cryptologic Pioneer
The Story of Magic, Memoirs of an American Cryptologic Pioneer 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Keys of Egypt: The Race to Crack the Hieroglyph Code
The Keys of Egypt: The Race to Crack the Hieroglyph Code 4.01 avg rating — 434 ratings
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How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Step-by-Step Guide to Teach Yourself, Revised Edition
How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Step-by-Step Guide to Teach Yourself, Revised Edition 4.22 avg rating — 686 ratings
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Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment
Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment 3.97 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Story of Writing
The Story of Writing 3.86 avg rating — 367 ratings
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Light Over Liskeard
Light Over Liskeard 3.67 avg rating — 1,176 ratings
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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 4.09 avg rating — 23,147 ratings
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Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II 3.96 avg rating — 29,155 ratings
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The Book Of Satoshi: The Collected Writings of Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto
The Book Of Satoshi: The Collected Writings of Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto 4.08 avg rating — 699 ratings
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Navajo Code Talkers
Navajo Code Talkers 3.92 avg rating — 517 ratings
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Navajo Weapon: The Navajo Code Talkers
Navajo Weapon: The Navajo Code Talkers 4.01 avg rating — 227 ratings
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Seizing The Enigma: The Race To Break The German U-boat Codes, 1939-1943
Seizing The Enigma: The Race To Break The German U-boat Codes, 1939-1943 3.94 avg rating — 913 ratings
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Station X: The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park
Station X: The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park 3.97 avg rating — 963 ratings
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The Hut Six Story: Breaking the Enigma Codes
The Hut Six Story: Breaking the Enigma Codes 3.92 avg rating — 263 ratings
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The Navajo Code Talkers
The Navajo Code Talkers 3.53 avg rating — 141 ratings
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Enigma: The Battle For The Code (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore (2004-10-07)
Enigma: The Battle For The Code (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore (2004-10-07) 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Alan Turing: The Enigma
Alan Turing: The Enigma 3.75 avg rating — 11,795 ratings
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Turing and the Universal Machine: The Making of the Modern Computer
Turing and the Universal Machine: The Making of the Modern Computer
by: Jon Agar
3.43 avg rating — 136 ratings
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Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World
Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World 3.93 avg rating — 1,791 ratings
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In Code: A Mathematical Journey by Sarah Flannery (2000-03-20)
In Code: A Mathematical Journey by Sarah Flannery (2000-03-20) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Introduction to the Analysis of the Data Encryption Standard
Introduction to the Analysis of the Data Encryption Standard 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings