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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 — 29,618 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 — 24,525 ratings — published 2017
Cryptonomicon (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.23 — 118,647 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 — 2,143 ratings — published 1993
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,586,899 ratings — published 2003
The Rose Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.44 — 409,325 ratings — published 2021
Enigma (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.91 — 19,480 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 — 452 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 — 31,476 ratings — published 2017
Inferno (Robert Langdon, #4)
by (shelved 3 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.91 — 611,014 ratings — published 2013
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,463,321 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 — 1,838 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 4.28 — 9,480 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 — 971 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 — 1,347 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 4.05 — 1,629 ratings — published 2001
Digital Fortress (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.71 — 674,119 ratings — published 1998
Origin (Robert Langdon, #5)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.90 — 382,848 ratings — published 2017
The Codebreaker's Secret (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.11 — 11,352 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 — 1,660 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 — 1,053 ratings — published 2022
Salem's Cipher (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,565 ratings — published
X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.97 — 444 ratings — published 2018
Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,714 ratings — published 1998
Serious Cryptography: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.29 — 385 ratings — published
Cryptography Engineering: Design Principles and Practical Applications (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.22 — 411 ratings — published 2010
The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.77 — 674,797 ratings — published 2009
The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.34 — 37,919 ratings — published 2020
Alan Turing: The Enigma (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.75 — 12,159 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 — 5,999 ratings — published 2004
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.92 — 44,063 ratings — published 2003
The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.28 — 25,577 ratings — published 2004
Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 4.24 — 21,467 ratings — published
The Showstone (Cal Donovan, #4)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 4.34 — 406 ratings — published
The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 3.83 — 507 ratings — published 2022
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 — 245 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 — 11,839 ratings — published 2021
Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 4.21 — 713 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 — 1,377 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
“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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“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