Editing Bibliography of cryptography (section)

===Historic works===
* [[Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Ishaq al-Sabbah Al-Kindi]], (A Manuscript on Deciphering Cryptographic Messages), 9th century included first known explanation of [[frequency analysis]] [[cryptanalysis]]
*[[Michel de Nostredame]], (16th century prophet famed since 1555 for prognostications), known widely for his "''Les Propheties''" sets of quatrains composed from four languages into a ciphertext, deciphered in a series called "''Rise to Consciousness''" (Deschausses, M., Outskirts Press, Denver, CO, Nov 2008).
* [[Roger Bacon]] (English friar and polymath), ''Epistle on the secret Works of Art and Nullity of Magic'', 13th century, possibly the first  European work on cryptography since Classical times, written in Latin and not widely available then or now
* [[Johannes Trithemius]], ''Steganographia'' ("Hidden Writing"), written ca. 1499; pub 1606, banned by the Catholic Church 1609 as alleged discussion of [[magic and religion|magic]], see Polygraphiae (below).
* [[Johannes Trithemius]], ''Polygraphiae Libri Sex'' ("Six Books on Polygraphy"), 1518, first printed book on cryptography (thought to really be about magic by some observers at the time)
* [[Giovan Battista Bellaso]], ''La cifra del. Sig. Giovan Battista Bellaso'', 1553, first pub of the cypher widely misattributed to Vigenère.
* [[Giambattista della Porta]], ''[[De Furtivis Literarum Notis]]'' ("On concealed characters in writing"), 1563.
* [[Blaise de Vigenère]], ''Traicte de Chiffres'', 1585.
* [[Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg|Gustavus Selenus]], ''Cryptomenytics'', 1624, (modern era English trans by J W H Walden)
* [[John Wilkins]], ''Mercury'', 1647, earliest printed book in English about cryptography
* [[Johann Ludwig Klüber]], ''[[Kryptographik|Kryptographik Lehrbuch der Geheimschreibekunst]]'' ("Cryptology: Instruction Book on the Art of Secret Writing"), 1809.
* [[Friedrich Kasiski]], ''Die Geheimschriften und die Dechiffrierkunst'' ("Secret writing and the Art of Deciphering"), pub 1863, contained the first public description of a technique for cryptanalyzing polyalphabetic cyphers.
* [[Etienne Bazeries]], ''Les Chiffres secrets dévoilés'' ("Secret ciphers unveiled") about 1900.
* [[Émile Victor Théodore Myszkowski]], ''[[Cryptographie indéchiffrable]]: basée sur de nouvelles combinaisons rationelles'' ("Unbreakable cryptography"), published 1902.
* [[William F. Friedman]] and others, the [[Riverbank Publications]], a series of pamphlets written during and after World War I that are considered seminal to modern cryptanalysis, including no. 22 on the [[Index of Coincidence]].