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Cryptography and the History of Secrets

Curatorial Theme: The Science of the Unbreakable. Tracing the intellectual arms race between codemakers and codebreakers, from ancient ciphers to quantum cryptography.

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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

Simon Singh · 1996

General History. Traces evolution of secrecy from ancient Egypt to quantum mechanics.

Applied cryptography

Bruce Schneier · 2007

Protocols. The "Bible" of the field, legendary for algorithms and protocols.

Cryptonomicon

Neal Stephenson · 1999

Cryptography and the History of Secrets

The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

Applied cryptography

Cryptonomicon

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Cryptography and the History of Secrets

The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

Applied cryptography

Cryptonomicon

Alan Turing: the enigma

Enigma

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II

Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War 1941-1945

The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet

Serious Cryptography

Crypto Dictionary: 500 Tasty Tidbits for the Curious Cryptographer