Cryptography Reference
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
David Kahn,
The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writing
,
rev. ed. (1996), is a comprehensive and meticulously
researched history of classical single-key cryptology.
Simon Singh,
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from
Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
(2000), the North
American edition of a topic by a British science writer and
television producer, describes the importance of code-
making and codebreaking through history.
Fred Piper and Sean Murphy,
Cryptography: A Very
Short Introduction
(2002), is written for the general reader.
Modern texts in cryptography include Christof Paar
and Jan Pelzl,
Understanding Cryptography: A Textbook for
Students and Practitioners
(2010); Bruce Schneier,
Applied
Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C
, 2nd
ed. (1996); and Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot,
and Scott A. Vanstone,
Handbook of Applied Cryptography
(1997), all providing very complete coverage of cryptologi-
cal protocols and algorithms.
Two topics on the Ultra intelligence project of World
War II are David Kahn,
Seizing the Enigma: The Race to
Break the German U-Boat Codes, 1939-1943
(1992); and F.H.
Hinsley and Alan Stripp (eds.),
Codebreakers: The Inside
Story of Bletchley Park
(1994).
