It provides a valuable account of the work performed at Bletchley Park and the people involved. This book is written in the style of a documentary with comments from people who worked at Bletchley Park. Station X – The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park by Michael Smith ISBN: 0-7522-7148-2 ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ Required, but it’s not a book I would recommend to someone starting out Good introduction to cryptography with no background in cryptography Have read other reviews on this book and they all think it provides a Other chapters there is a lot of repetition with brief explanations. Some chapters are very good andĮxplained well, including the chapter on modern algorithms. Ĭryptography, A Very Short Introduction by Fred Piper and Sean Murphy ISBN: 0-19-280315-8 ☺ ☺ ☺ Overall it provides a very clear introduction to cryptography. This book is important because it provides a word frequency table and several other books reference it for that reason. Worked examples as well as many deciphering examples with solutions.
Theīook explains transposition and substitution ciphers and provides Is in Chapter 5 which provides a summary of codes versus ciphers. The book concentrates on ciphers and in fact the only mention of codes Is with regards to the US Army during WW2, when cryptography as we know This book was written in 1943 by an American so most of the information This is based on “The Code Book” and it basically takes sections ofĬryptography - The Science of Secret Writing by Laurence Dwight Smith ISBN: 7-X ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ The Cracking Codebook by Simon Singh ISBN: 0-00-717604-X ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺
The worrying thing is that most of them diedĪ copy of the book is available free of charge from Simon Singh's website. He gives you their background, how they cracked theĬodes and how they died. Like most about this book, is that Simon introduces the people whoĬracked the codes. It is a brilliant introduction to cryptography. Several people and after reading it, I would also recommend it. The Code Book – The Secret History of Codes and Code-Breaking by Simon Singh ISBN: 1-85702-889-9 ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ There is an excellent further reading section. The book contains riddles to be solved, unfortunately there are no answers to the riddles. Provides information on how to make your own cipher machines. Used to produce ciphers and methods of sending ciphers. Introduction to simple transposition and substitution ciphers, machines Is a well written book which is very easy to read. It was fun to read and contains severalĬodes, Ciphers & Secret Writing by Martin Gardner ISBN: 1-9 ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ Is a children’s book, which provides a very good introduction toĬryptography and coding. Cracking Codes by Diana Kimpton ISBN: 8-9 ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺
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