Editing Bibliography of cryptography (section)

===Fiction===
* [[Neal Stephenson]] – ''[[Cryptonomicon]]'' (1999) ({{ISBN|0-06-051280-6}}) The adventures of some [[World War II]] [[Cryptanalysis|codebreakers]] and their modern-day progeny.
* [[Edgar Allan Poe]] – "[[The Gold-Bug]]" (1843) An eccentric man discovers an ancient parchment which contains a cryptogram which, when solved, leads to the discovery of buried treasure. Includes a lengthy discourse on a method of solving [[substitution cipher|a simple cypher]].
* [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]] – ''[[The Adventure of the Dancing Men|The Dancing Men]]''. Holmes becomes involved in a case which features messages left lying around. They are  written in a substitution cypher, which Holmes promptly discerns. Solving the cypher leads to solving the case.
*[[Ken Follett]] – ''The Key to Rebecca'' (1980), World War II spy novel whose plot revolves around the heroes' efforts to cryptanalyze a [[book cipher]] with time running out.
*[[Clifford B. Hicks]] – ''Alvin's Secret Code'' (1963), a children's novel which introduces some basics of cryptography and cryptanalysis.
*[[Robert Harris (novelist)|Robert Harris]] – ''[[Enigma (novel)|Enigma]]'' (1995) ({{ISBN|0-09-999200-0}}) Novel partly set in Britain's [[World War II]] codebreaking centre at [[Bletchley Park]].
*Ari Juels  – ''Tetraktys'' (2009) ({{ISBN|0-9822837-0-9}}) Pits a classicist turned cryptographer against an ancient Pythagorean cult. Written by RSA Labs chief scientist.
*[[Dan Brown]] - ''[[Digital Fortress]]'' (1998), a thriller takes a plunge into the NSA's cryptology wing giving the readers a modern and technology oriented view of the codebreaking in vogue.
*Max Hernandez - ''[[Thieves Emporium]]''  (2013), a novel that examines how the world will change if cryptography makes fully bi-directional anonymous communications possible.  A technically accurate document, it shows the effects of crypto from the citizen's standpoint rather than the NSA.
*[[Barry Eisler]], ''[[Fault Line (Eisler)|Fault Line]]'' (2009) {{ISBN| 978-0-345-50508-8}}. A thriller about a race to nab software (of the [[cryptovirology]] type) which is capable of shutting down cyberspace.