This book is so big, heavy, and awkward, it will kill me to read it whenever I actually feel up to it.

Indeholder "Acknowledgements", "Cryptology: From Hieroglyphs to the Internet", " The Beginnings of Cryptology", " The Renaissance", " Monarchies and Revolution", " The Mechanical Age", " The First World War", " The 1920s and 1930s", " The Second World War", " Naval Battles", " Espionage and Counterespionage", " The Postwar Era: Spies and Security", " The Race for Technology", " The New Cryptology: Public and Private Security Issues", "Ciphers", " Transposition Ciphers", " Reverse Transposition", " Reverse Variations", " Geometric Ciphers", " Route Transpositions", " Rail Fence", " Variations on the Rail Fence", " Horizontal Routes", " Alternate Horizontals", " Vertical Routes", " Alternate Verticals", " Diagonal Routes", " Alternate Diagonals", " Clockwise Routes", " Counterclockwise Routes", " Columnar Transposition", " Interrupted Columnar", " Diagonal Columnar", " Double Columnar", " Four Corner Transposition", " Triangle and Trapezoid Transpositions", " Word Transposition", " Substitution Ciphers", " Monoalphabetic Substitution", " Shift Ciphers", " Shift Cipher with Keyword", " Keyphrase Ciphers", " Random Substitution Ciphers", " Charlemagne's Cipher", " Zodiac Cipher", " Mary Queen of Scots Cipher", " Chevalier de Rohan's Cipher", " Rose Greenhow's Cipher", " Edgar Allan Poe's 'Gold Bug' Cipher", " Sherlock Holmes 'Adventures of the Dancing Men' Cipher", " The Shadow's Ciphers", " Geometric Ciphers", " Rosicrucian Cipher", " Freemason's Cipher", " Alphanumeric Ciphers", " Franklin-Dumas Cipher", " 'The Man from Scotland Yard' Cipher", " Multiliteral Forms", " Polybius Checkerboard", " Elizabeth Van Lew's Cipher", " Knock Cipher", " Multiliteral Variations", " Multiple Equivalents", " Variants", " Multiliteral Ciphers with Keyword", " Multiliteral Tables", " Russian Nihilist Cipher", " Straddling Checkerboard", " Polyalphabetic Substitution", " Disks", " Alberti's Disk", " Porta's Disk", " Tableux", " Trithemius's Tabula Recta", " Vigenere's Table", " Key Progression", " Marie Antoinette's Cipher", " Variations of Vigenère's Table", " Gronsfeld Cipher", " Beaufort Cipher", " Polygraphic Ciphers", " Porta's Digraphic Cipher", " Playfair Cipher", " Two-square Cipher", " Four-Square Cipher", " Trigraphic Ciphers", " Algebraic Ciphers", " Fractionating Ciphers", " Aperiodic Fractionating Ciphers", " Periodic Encipherment", " Tripartite Fractionating Ciphers", " Bifid Cipher", " ADFGX", " ADFGVX", " Cipher Devices and Machines", " Cipher Devices", " Thomas Jefferson's Wheel Cypher", " Wadsworth's Device", " Wheatstone's Cryptograph", " Saint-Cyr Slide", " Cylindrical Cryptograph", " Pletts's Device", " M-138 And M-138A", " M-94", " Advancements in Cipher Machines", " M-209", " Electrically Wired Rotors", " Edward Hebern's Electric Code Machine", " Elecronic cipher machine (ECM) and ECM Mark II", " Sigaba", " Enigma", " Typex", " Colossus", " Red", " Alphabetical Typewriter '97 And The Purple Analog", " Unbreakable Ciphers", " Baudot Code/Vernam Cipher", " Mauborgne's One-Time System", " One-Time Pads", " VIC Cipher", " Computer Cryptography", " Data Encryption Standard", " Two-Key Cryptography", " RSA Cryptoalgorithm", " Authentication", " Key Generation", " Quantum Cryptography", " Fundamentals of Quantum Computation", " Quantum Cryptography", " Cryptanalysis", " Cryptanalytic Techniques", " Hints For Breaking Polyalphabetic Ciphers", "Codes", " Nomenclators", " How To Make A Nomenclator", " Benjamin Tallmadge's Nomenclator", " XYZ Nomenclator", " James Madison's Nomenclators", " Book Codes", " How To Make A Book Code", " Benedict Arnold's Book Code", " Nicholas Trist's Book Code", " Presidential Election of 1876", " Codebooks", " How To Make A One-Part Code", " How To Make A Two-Part Code", " Early State Department Codes", " State Department Code of 1867", " Chief Signal Officer's Code (Circa 1871)", " The Cipher of the Department of State (1876)", " The Cipher of the Deparmtent of State (1899)", " Green Cipher", " Codes in World War I", " Zimmermann Telegram", " American Trench Code", " The River Series: Potomac", " The River Series: Mohawk", " Telephone Code", " The Lake Series: Champlain", " The Lake Series: Huron", " American Radio Service Code No. I", " Choctaw 'Codetalkers'", " Commercial Codes", " The Slater Code", " The Acme Code", " Murray Teleprinter Process", " Q Code", " Pre-World War II Codes", " Gray Code", " Department of State Code A-1", " Brown Code", " World War II Codes", " Black Code", " Merchant Ships' Code", " The "J" Series", " JN25", " Native American 'Codetalkers'", " Quadratic Code", " Codes In Everyday Life", " Universal Product Code (UPC)", " Zip Code", " ASCII", " Banking Security Codes", " Genetic Code", " Codebreaking", " Breaking Enciphered Codes", " Signals", " Hand and Arm Signals", " Naval Flaghoist Signals", " Hand-Held Signaling Systems: Flags, Disks and Torches", " Light Signals", " Constant Illumination Signals", " Pyrotechnic and Chronosemic Systems", " Reflected and Flashed Light", " Mechanical Signaling Systems", " Hand-Held Semaphore", " Technical Advancemenets", " The Electronic War Zone: Signals Security and Signals Intelligence", " Steganography", " Technical Methods of Concealment", " Invisible Inks", " How to Make an Invisible Ink", " Cryptophotographic Techniques", " Microdots", " Linguistic Concealments", " Semagrams", " Semagrams in Writing", " Grilles", " Null Ciphers", " Jargon Codes", " Modern Transmissions Security", " Laser And Infrared Technology", " Pulse Code Modulation", " Burst/Spurt Transmissions", " Spread Spectrum", " Scripts & Languages", " Protowriting", " Solved Scripts", " Deciphering an extinct script", " Cuneiform", " Decryption", " Egyptian Hieroglyphs", " Decryption", " Hittite Cuneiform and Hieroglyphs", " Decryption", " Linear B", " Decryption", " Mayan Glyphs", " Decryption", " Unsolved Scripts", " Proto-Elamite", " Indus Seals", " Linear A", " The Phaistos Disk", " Etruscan", " Rongorongo", " Voynich Manuscript", " Cryptic Scripts", " Runes", " Ogham", " Modern Pictographic Scripts", " Chinese", " Japanese", " Scripts and Signs for Special Interest Groups", " Shorthand", " Scripts For the Sight-Impaired", " Braille", " Moon type", " Sign Language", " Languages: Invented, International and Artificial", " Solresol", " Volapük", " Esperanto", "Biographies", " Alberti, Leon Battista", " Bazeries, Etienne", " Cardano, Girolamo", " Champollion, Jean Francois", " Chappe, Claude", " Driscoll, Agnes", " Evans, Arthur", " Fabyan, George", " Friedman, Elizabeth", " Friedman, William", " Hagelin, Boris", " Hebern, Edward", " Hitt, Parker", " Kasiski, Friedrich", " Kerkhoffs, Auguste", " Kullback, Solomon", " Lamphere, Robert", " Mauborgne, Joseph", " Myer, Albert", " Porta, Giovanni", " Rawlinson, Henry", " Rossignol, Antoinne", " Safford, Laurence", " Trithemius, Johannes", " Ventris, Michael", " Vigenere, Blaise de", " Wheatstone, Charles", " Yardley, Herbert ", "Quizzes And Answers", "Appendix", "Glossary", "Bibliography", "Index".

Mest historiske fortællinger. Ikke ret meget hård teori. ( )

Encyclopedic explanation of just about every type of code known, along with historical discussions. ( )