Editing Bibliography of cryptography (section)

===History of cryptography===
* [[James Bamford|Bamford, James]], ''[[The Puzzle Palace]]: A Report on America's Most Secret Agency'' (1982)({{ISBN|0-14-006748-5}}), and the more recent ''[[Body of Secrets|Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency]]'' (2001). The first is one of a very few books about the US Government's NSA. The second is also about NSA but concentrates more on its history. There is some very interesting material in ''Body of Secrets'' about US attempts (the [[TICOM]] mission) to investigate German cryptographic efforts immediately as WW II wound down.
* [[Gustave Bertrand]], ''Enigma ou la plus grande énigme de la guerre 1939–1945'' (Enigma:  the Greatest Enigma of the War of 1939–1945), Paris, 1973. The first public disclosure in the West of the breaking of Enigma, by the chief of French military cryptography prior to WW II. The first public disclosure anywhere was made in the first edition of ''Bitwa o tajemnice'' by the late Władysław Kozaczuk.
* [[James Gannon (author)|James Gannon]], ''Stealing Secrets, Telling Lies:  How Spies and Codebreakers Helped Shape the Twentieth Century'', Washington, D.C., Brassey's, 2001:  an overview of major 20th-century episodes in [[cryptology]] and [[espionage]], particularly strong regarding the misappropriation of credit for conspicuous achievements.
* [[David Kahn (writer)|Kahn, David]] – ''[[The Codebreakers]]'' (1967) ({{ISBN|0-684-83130-9}}) A single-volume source for cryptographic history, at least for events up to the mid-'60s (i.e., to just before DES and the public release of [[asymmetric key cryptography]]). The added chapter on more recent developments (in the most recent edition) is quite thin. Kahn has written other books and articles on cryptography, and on cryptographic history. They are very highly regarded.
* [[Władysław Kozaczuk|Kozaczuk, Władysław]], ''Enigma:  How the German Machine Cipher Was Broken, and How It Was Read by the Allies in World War II'', edited and translated by [[Christopher Kasparek]], Frederick, MD, 1984: a history of cryptological efforts against Enigma, concentrating on the contributions of Polish mathematicians [[Marian Rejewski]], [[Jerzy Różycki]] and [[Henryk Zygalski]]; of particular interest to specialists will be several technical appendices by Rejewski.
* Levy, Steven – ''[[Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government—Saving Privacy in the Digital Age]]'' (2001) ({{ISBN|0-14-024432-8}}):  a journalistic overview of the development of public cryptographic techniques and the US regulatory context for cryptography. This is an account of a major policy conflict.
* [[Simon Singh|Singh, Simon]], ''[[The Code Book]]'' ({{ISBN|1-85702-889-9}}):  an anecdotal introduction to the history of cryptography. Covers more recent material than does even the revised edition of Kahn's ''The Codebreakers''. Clearly written and quite readable. The included cryptanalytic contest has been won and the prize awarded, but the cyphertexts are still worth attempting.
* [[Friedrich L. Bauer|Bauer, F L]], ''Decrypted Secrets'', This book is unusual. It is both a history of cryptography, and a discussion of mathematical topics related to cryptography. In his review, David Kahn said he thought it the best book he'd read on the subject. It is essentially two books, in more or less alternating chapters. Originally in German, and the translation shows it in places. Some surprising content, e.g., in the discussion of President Edgar <!-- NB: this is not an error. There is a reference in the book to this 'President'. -->Hoover's Secretary of State, Henry Stimson.
* [[Stephen Budiansky|Budiansky, Stephen]], ''Battle of Wits'':  a one-volume history of cryptography in WW II. It is well written, well researched, and responsible. Technical material (e.g., a description of the cryptanalysis of [[Enigma (machine)|Enigma]]) is limited, but clearly presented.
* [[Stephen Budiansky|Budiansky, Stephen]], ''Code Warriors: NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union'' (Knopf, 2016). ({{ISBN|0385352662}}): A sweeping, in-depth history of NSA, whose famous “cult of silence” has left the agency shrouded in mystery for decades.
* Prados, John – ''Combined Fleet Decoded'', An account of cryptography in the Pacific Theatre of World War II with special emphasis on the Japanese side. Reflects extensive research in Japanese sources and recently available US material. Contains material not previously accessible or unavailable.
* [[Leo Marks|Marks, Leo]], ''Between Silk and Cyanide: a Codemaker's Story, 1941–1945,'' (HarperCollins, 1998). ({{ISBN|0-684-86780-X}}). A humorous but informative account of code-making and -breaking in Britain's [[World War II|WWII]] [[Special Operations Executive]].
* [[Liza Mundy|Mundy, Liza]], ''Code Girls,'' (Hachette Books, 2017) ({{ISBN|978-0-316-35253-6}}) An account of some of the thousands of women recruited for U.S. cryptologic work before and during World War II, including top analysts such as [[Elizebeth Smith Friedman]] and [[Agnes Meyer Driscoll]], lesser known but outstanding contributors like [[Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein]] and [[Ann Zeilinger Caracristi]], and many others, and how the women made a strategic difference in the war.
*[[Herbert Yardley|Yardley, Herbert]], ''The American Black Chamber'' ({{ISBN|0-345-29867-5}}),  a classic 1931 account of American code-breaking during and after [[World War I]]; and ''Chinese Black Chamber: An Adventure in Espionage'' ({{ISBN|0-395-34648-7}}), about Yardley's work with the Chinese government in the years just before [[World War II]].  Yardley has an enduring reputation for embellishment, and some of the material in these books is less than reliable.   ''The American Black Chamber'' was written after the New York operation Yardley ran was shut down by Secretary of State [[Henry L. Stimson]] and the US Army, on the grounds that "gentlemen don't read each other's mail".