The Code Book: The Science Of Secrecy From Ancient Egypt To Quantum Cryptography

from scott.r

Useful introduction to ciphers and the people who have been making and breaking them for centuries. Engaging and educational, with just a tad too much technical detail (for my taste) in a few chapt...

from pizzadj2

I tried to read Alan Turing: The Enigma by Hodges and it seemed to be much more of a biography than explaining the ww2 Enigma. This book was much quicker to read and left out details like the name ...

from jeff.maynes

Simon Singh's book on the history of cryptography is a brilliant work of popular science and history. The aim of the book is to take us from the days of simple hidden messages, through the inventio...

from lmarin

I actually don't own this book but borrowed it from jmservat a while back. It is a fascinating and readable introduction to cryptography. I actually could not put it down! At the end of the book th...

from davidpwhelan

Simon Singh is a gifted writer and this is a terrific example of his work. Singh takes you through the history of cryptography and encipherment by looking first at the codemakers and then the codeb...