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Simon Singh's cybersecurity books

Simon Singh is a science writer with a PhD in particle physics, best known in security circles for The Code Book — the history that makes cryptography feel inevitable, with no math background required.

Cryptography History Narrative

01 · 1999
The Code Book
The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
A narrative history of cryptography from Caesar ciphers to public-key, told through the people and the wars that turned on broken codes. Still the best on-ramp to why crypto matters.
Beginner
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