cryptography

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The last Templar

2006
Archaeologist Tess Chaykin and FBI agent Sean Reilly investigate the theft, by four horsemen dressed as Knights Templar, of a coding device that could reveal the order's secrets about early Christian history.

Enigma

1996
Tom Jericho has been called out of retirement to join in a race to crack the Nazi's secret code, Enigma, in order to save Allied troops from a deadly German attack.

L'?nigme des catacombes

2011
Amy and Dan, members of the powerful Cahill family, try to uncover the thirty-nine clues which will reveal the secrets of their lineage and find out what really happened to their parents.

Exp?dition en ?gypte

2011
Amy and Dan, following a clue found in Book 3, set out to uncover details about the origins of the rivalry between the Tomas and Ekaterina branches of their family, not realizing they are headed right into the hands of the enemy.

Code breakers

from hieroglyphs to hackers
2002

Solving Zoe

2010
Zoe's sixth-grade year at a Brooklyn school for gifted students is marked by changing relationships with her fellow students and teachers, recognition of her talent for cryptography, and a greater awareness of her passion.

Crypto

how the code rebels beat the government, saving privacy in a digital age
2001
Discusses how computer hackers and mathematical wizards managed to break the government's secret codes and explains how this breach of privacy has threatened the United States economy.

Code Talker

a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two
2006
After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.

Pass it on!

all about notes, from secret codes and special inks to fancy folds and dead man's drops
1995
Examines the history of writing and provides instructions for making special inks, using various alphabets and codes, and creating personal seals and private letter drops.

Loads of codes and secret ciphers

1984
Discusses and provides practice in making and breaking codes and ciphers, as well as in building simple coding devices to transmit secret messages.

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