cryptography

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cryptography

The kids' code and cipher book

1991
Presents a variety of codes and ciphers and includes messages to encode and decode, as part of a story.

Who broke the wartime codes?

This account of the Allied efforts to decode Axis messages--and keep the success of their efforts secret--describes the men and women behind the scenes, as well as the institutions they served, and the early computers devised for the purpose.

Secret writing

keys to the mysteries of reading and writing
1986
Discusses secret writing, ciphers, and the processes of creating and deciphering secret or difficult languages. Includes thinking and writing exercises.

Code talkers

2008
Two Navajo brothers use their native language that they've been forbidden to speak to help in winning World War II.

How to keep a secret

writing and talking in code
1998
Presents various methods of writing, speaking, and signaling secret messages.

The kids' book of secret codes, signals, and ciphers

1989
Discusses the history and different varieties of codes and ciphers, describing code machines, signals, sign language, picture languages, and hidden messages.

The code book

how to make it, break it, hack it, crack it
2002
This book discusses the battle between codemakers and codebreakers that has been going on for centuries as well as describing the processes of enciphering and deciphering.

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