Cryptology - non-fiction and fiction

aulsmith: I eventually bogged down because the novel started to be too repetitious of the non-fiction I was reading. But if you prefer fiction, this is really good.

bluepiano: not a book about cryptography, but cryptography plays a large part in it

bluepiano : seems to be cryptography but isn't

bluepiano : writing systems, not cryptography

aulsmith : The former head of the cryptology dept in the US during World War I and through most of the 1920s exaggerates his role in the work