My Crypto Library

Bacon, F., Hutchesns, R. M. (1953). Greatest books of the western world, Francis Bacon. Britannica
(Benton, 1952)
LCCN: 55-10337

Three classic works of Francis Bacon: Advancement of Learning, Novum Organum, and New Atlantis.

Bauer, F. L. (2002). Decrypted Secrets: Methods and Maxims of Cryptology. Springer.
(Bauer, 2002)
ISBN 3-540-42674-4

Forthcoming

Bauer, C. (2019). Unsolved!: The history and mystery of the world's greatest ciphers from Ancient Egypt to online ... secret societies. PRINCETON University PRES.
(Bauer, 2019)
ISBN: 978-0-691-19229-1

This is a lovely and engaging read that touches on many types of ciphers. Overall it uses pretty good endnotes but the actual citations can be difficult to track down. Of interest to me was chapter 2 'Ancient Ciphers' which speaks to ancient Egyptian, Grecian, and Runic ciphers. A good read for what it is but limitied in value for the purposes of documentation.

Beutelspacher, A., & Fisher, J. C. (1994). Cryptology: An introduction to the art and science of enciphering, encrypting, concealing, hiding, and safeguarding described without any arcane skullduggery but not without cunning waggery for the delectation and instruction of the general public. Mathematical Association of America.
(Beutelspacher & Fisher, 1994)
ISBN: 0-88385-504-6

This is, by far, the most math focused book that I have in my collection at this time. What I really like about this book is that it does not back away from 'scary math'. 'The Mathematical Association of America' published this book, so this isn't all that unexpected. There isn't too much in the way of history in this book but it does provide a pretty good foundation on the basics of how encryption works and how to approach the cryptanalysis of reversing those ciphers.

Cawthorne, N. (2018). The history of code breaking. The Rosen Publishing Group.
(Cawthorne, 2018)
ISBN: 978-1-508-17704-3

A digestable history of code making and breaking. There is not much on the antiquity of cryptography but what is there is of notable quality.

D'Agapeyeff, A. (2006). Codes and ciphers. Hesperides Press.
(D'Agapeyeff, 2006)
ISBN: 978-1-4067-9858-6

This book covers a LOT of material but none of it to any depth. The first 30 pages or so cover the 'history of cryptology' and those are pretty good. Unfortunately references and general documentation are a bit weak.

Daigneau, J. (2020). Code cracking for kids: Secret communications throughout history, with 21 codes and ciphers. Chicago Review Press.
(Daigneau, 2020)
ISBN: 978-1-641-60138-2

I got this as an introcuction to ciphers for my young daughter but I ended up really liking it. Yes, it is aimed at children and as such it is chock full of little factoids and puzzles that are engaging and fun if simplistic. Recommended for the Jr. cryptologist in your family.

Ellison, K. (2018). A Cultural History of Early Modern English Cryptography Manuals. Routledge.
(Ellison, 2018)
ISBN: 978-1-4724-5764-6

Exactly what it sounds like and 100% worth the high price.

Ellison, K. E., & Kim, S. M. (2018). A material history of medieval and early modern ciphers: Cryptography and the history of literacy. Routledge.
(Ellison & Kim, 2018)
ISBN: 978-1-138-24464-1

A superlative collection of papers that speak to the sociopolitical and general education factors that contributed to the need for and rise of cryptography as skill and profession.

Gaines, H. F. (1956). Cryptanalysis; a study of ciphers and their solution. Dover Publications.
(Gaines, 1956)
ISBN: 978-0-486-20097-2

On a personal note; I like this book. The thing that I REALLY like about this book is the great collection of examples and the description provided with relevance to cryptanalysis. Working through this book you will undoubtedly learn about the process of decryption.

Galland, S. (1945). An historical and analytical bibliography of the literature of Cryptology. [PRESS MISSING]
(Gaines, 1945)
ISBN: 978-1-406-76757-5

An extensive annotated bibliography of texts related to cryptology.

Haldane, R. A. (1976). The hidden world. [PRESS MISSING]
(Haldane, 1976)
ISBN/LCCN: NA

An exciting read that is well thought out, and it should be since 80% is plagiarized.

Holden, J. (2017). The Mathematics of Secrets. Princeton University Press.
(Holden, 2017)
ISBN: 078-0-691-14175-6

Hands down the best book to learn about how secrets translate to equations.

Kahn, D. (1996). The codebreakers: The story of secret writing. Scribner.
(Kahn, 1996)
ISBN: 978-0-584-83130-5

OK. I'm going to need to take a little time to come up with a worthy description of this work. It is, quite simply, the currently definitive work on the history of cryptography. There are areas where it could be better but, yeah, it's basically the go-to book on the history of cryptology. You still only get about 150-200 pages of historical (period) information but it's totally worth it.

Long, P. O. (2004). Openness, secrecy, authorship: Technical arts and the culture of knowledge from antiquity to the Renaissance. Johns Hopkins University Press.
(Long, 2004)
ISBN: 0-8018-6606-5

Forthcoming

Mitani, M., Sato, S., & Hinoki, I. (2018). The manga guide to cryptography. Ohmsha.
(Mitani, 2018)
ISBN:978-1-59327-742-0

It's manga! It's math! It's actually a modern cryptograpahy text book that is pretending to be manga! Get ready to math.

Page, R. I. (2006). An introduction to English runes. Boydell.
(Page, 2006)
ISBN: 978-0-851-15946-1

Guide book to Anglo-Saxon rune systems.

Pickover, C. A. (2000). Cryptorunes codes and secret writing; a puzzle book. Pomegranate.
(Pickover, 2000)
ISBN: 978-0-764-91251-1

A fun distraction of games and crypto puzzles. Oddly focused on ideograms of little aliens doing funny poses. Good fun and oddly challenging from time to time.

Pratt, F. (1996). Secret and Urgent - The story of codes and ciphers. [PRESS MISSING]
(Pratt, 1996)
ISBN: 978-0-894-12261-3 / 978-1-447-45610-0

Forthcoming

Shulman, D. (1976). An annotated bibliography of cryptography. S.U.N.Y.
(Shulman, 1976)
ISBN: 0-8240-9974-5

Exactly what it claims to be: a long form annotated bibliography of texts related to cryptography.

Shumaker, W. (1982). Renaissance Curiosa.
(Shumaker, 1982)
ISBN: 0-86698-014-8

Exactly what it claims to be: a long form annotated bibliography of texts related to cryptography.

Singh, S. (1999). The code book: The science of secrecy from ancient Egypt to quantum cryptography. [PRESS MISSING]
(Singh, 1999)
ISBN: 078-0-385-49532-5

'The Code Book' is an interesting and informative read but it's not particularly well structured with regards to historical context. The book begins with, IIRC, a discussion on late 1500's ciphers and then goes right on to more modern ciphers. Later in the book it does go back to some more historic basics but three quarters of the book are on modern cryptologic concepts.

Smith, L. D. (1955). Cryptography: The science of secret writing. Dover Publications.
(Smith, 1955)
ISBN: 978-0-486-20247-1

This is, so far, the most entertaining book that I've read on the subject. It's a short book, weighting in at 150ish pages but these are PACKED pages. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in an introduction to the topic.

Syversen, E. (1979). Norse runic inscriptions with their long-forgotten cryptography. Vine Hill Press
(Syversen, 1979)
LCCN: 79-55829

Forthcoming

Thorsson, T. E. (1988). Runelore - the Magic, history, and hidden codes of the runes. Red Wheel/weiser.
(Thorsson, 1988)
ISBN: 978-0-877-28667-7

Interesting if you fancy the study of the Runic languages and various scripts but not much to speak of with regard to actual Runic code systems.

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