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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 — 29,270 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 — 24,119 ratings — published 2017
Cryptonomicon (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.23 — 117,696 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 — 1,521 ratings — published 1967
Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,138 ratings — published 1993
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,554,529 ratings — published 2003
The Rose Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.44 — 389,106 ratings — published 2021
Enigma (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.91 — 19,085 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 — 30,862 ratings — published 2017
Inferno (Robert Langdon, #4)
by (shelved 3 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.91 — 602,397 ratings — published 2013
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,427,700 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 — 1,820 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 — 9,177 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 — 950 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 — 1,337 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 — 1,617 ratings — published 2001
Digital Fortress (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.71 — 669,395 ratings — published 1998
Origin (Robert Langdon, #5)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.90 — 373,554 ratings — published 2017
The Codebreaker's Secret (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,877 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 — 1,605 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 — 439 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 — 1,023 ratings — published 2022
Salem's Cipher (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,220 ratings — published
X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.96 — 435 ratings — published 2018
Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,688 ratings — published 1998
Serious Cryptography: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.29 — 381 ratings — published
Cryptography Engineering: Design Principles and Practical Applications (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.22 — 408 ratings — published 2010
The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.77 — 664,997 ratings — published 2009
The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.34 — 37,475 ratings — published
Alan Turing: The Enigma (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.75 — 12,023 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 — 5,978 ratings — published 2004
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 3.92 — 43,751 ratings — published 2003
The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptology)
avg rating 4.28 — 25,345 ratings — published 2004
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 — 244 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 — 11,520 ratings — published 2021
Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 4.21 — 706 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 4.01 — 1,314 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 4.29 — 138 ratings — published 2007
The Voynich Codex (Vatican Secret Archive Thrillers Book 11)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 4.08 — 608 ratings — published
Midnight Blue-Light Special (InCryptid, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 4.09 — 11,309 ratings — published 2013
Discount Armageddon (InCryptid, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 3.86 — 18,783 ratings — published 2012
Monster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptology)
avg rating 3.83 — 8,992 ratings — published 2009
“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 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
