books about: cryptography     books:     Cryptography      Humorous Cryptograms Helen Nash, Dorothy Masterson Sterling, 1995 Have lots of fun with codes. This inexpensive, sturdy, entertaining book contains 400 humorous, comical and sometimes even witty quotes, drawn from a myriad of personalities and encoded in challenging substitution cipher, guaranteed to keep you busy for hours. It also includes an introduction ...             Enigma Robert Harris Ballantine Books, 1996 Very Good I read this shortly after reading Fatherland and was prepared to be disappointed but found it in many ways to be as good as it's predecessor. Read.             Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C, Second Edition Bruce Schneier Wiley, 1996 Dated but indespensible Sadly, this book is more than a few years old. That said, it is still the finest single volume introduction to data security in the modern age. For clarity of description, for illustration, and for its success at communicating essential concepts and ideas without ...             Quotable Cryptograms: 500 Famous Quotes to Decipher Terry Stickels, Sam Bellotto Jr. Random House Puzzles & Games, 2008 Quotable Cryptograms - A Second Opinion I disagree with the previous review of "Quotable Cryptograms". I might not have the depth of knowledge as others in Cryptograpy, but I really enjoyed working and learning about them. When I purchased the book, I was not looking for a treatise on the subject, just an ...             Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two Joseph Bruchac Puffin, 2006 Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two Not having the time to sit and read many hard copy books, I listen to audio books while I do my work around the house and garden. Like those who read the book of this title who said they couldn't put it down, I found that I hated to have to turn off the cassette ...             The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography Simon Singh Anchor, 2000 Cryptography 101 As always Simon Singn takes the reader on a fantastic trip through History. Filled with entertaining stories, puzzles and heroic events, the author skillfully covers the history of secret writing. If you liked his coverage of Fermat's Enigma then you will definitely ...             CISSP Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, 4th Ed. Shon Harris McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2007 Faster Than a Speeding Bullet Wonderfully quick response and shipping time. Nice to have a request for any comments.             Cryptography and Network Security (4th Edition) William Stallings Prentice Hall, 2005 Not outstanding OK, this book has received prizes and stellar reviews here and elsewhere but personally I didn't like it very much. First, the text and the exercises lack mathematical depth. There are entire chapters, such as the one on AES, which add hardly anything to the official ...             Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition Jon Erickson No Starch Press, 2008 One of the best technical books I have ever read. One of the best technical books I have ever read. Starts simple and ramps up very fast building on material already presented. Goes in detail in showing many different "low level" exploitation techniques. I.e. buffer overflow, format string abuse, etc.             Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency James Bamford Anchor, 2002 Good Book, Not Just SIGINT Though This was a worthwhile read. It covers several of the key intelligence operations that were spearheaded by the NSA during the close of the cold war and during the beginning of the middle-eastern anti-terrorism campaign. While this book is informative and entertaining, ...             Practical Cryptography Niels Ferguson, Bruce Schneier Wiley, 2003 If you write software this book will help you understand cryptography This book really does explain the practical side of cryptography and writing cryptographic software. The authors take the readers with them as they design a secure communication system using existing algorithms and standards. You look over the shoulders of two ...             Introduction to Cryptography with Coding Theory (2nd Edition) Wade Trappe, Lawrence C. Washington Prentice Hall, 2005 Excellent Book I highly, highly recommend this book to anyone who either is taking a course in cryptography in school or wants to learn about it. It is a very well written book which clarifies a lot of basic concepts. I bought it as it was recommended by my professor in school and ...             Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945 Leo Marks Free Press, 2000 Monty Python meets Bletchley Park I was about to direct the play "Breaking the Code" and plucked this book from somewhere because I thought it would provide background. The project fell through so I put the book aside thinking that it would be extremely dry and technical - not exactly what you want on ...             Top Secret: A Handbook of Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing Candlewick, 2006 It's No Secret, This Book is Great Last summer my son decided he wanted to have spy club, so we looked through every book we could searching for information on how to be a spy. This book had the most thorough treatment of codes, ciphers and the like. It had plenty of activities that I felt like I ...             The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet David Kahn Scribner, 1996 Outstanding History of Cryptography up to 1965 This massive, exhaustively-researched book by David Kahn examines the HISTORY of cryptography from the dawn of civilization to the darkness of the Cold War. He starts an introductory bow to capture readers' attention with the Magic story (American decryption of ...          products you might be interested in search for books certification, codebreakers, communication, comprehensive, introduction, ultra-secret      toavi.com    web we recommend Cryptography 101 randomly chosen book: Berlin Then and Now