Cryptography

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• Signs and symbols
• Symbolism
• Writing

• Data encryption (Computer science)
• Ciphers

• Cryptography -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• Cryptography -- Military aspects
• Cryptography -- United States
• Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Cryptography
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Cryptography

• Cryptanalysis
• Cryptology
• Secret writing
• Steganography

• Cracking DES: Secrets of Encryption Research, Wiretap Politics and Chip Design (illustrated HTML at cryptome.org and other sites)
• Cryptography's Role in Securing the Information Society (prepublication copy), ed. by Kenneth Dam and Herbert Lin (HTML and page images at NAP)
• The Mathematical and Philosophical Works Of the Right Reverend John Wilkins (London: Printed for J. Nicholson, 1708), by John Wilkins (page images at Google)
• Military Cryptanalysis (4 volumes originally issued 1938-1941; declassified version published 2005), by William F. Friedman (PDF files at nsa.gov)

• Handbook of Applied Cryptography, by Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. Van Oorschot, and Scott A. Vanstone (PDF and Postscript files with commentary at Waterloo)

• Basic Cryptanalysis (FM 34-40-2, 1990), by United States Army (PDF and Postscript files at Michigan)

• American Cryptology During the Cold War, 1945-1989 (4 volumes; declassified redacted version, published 1995-1999), by Thomas R. Johnson
  • Book 1 (1945-1960): PDF at nsa.gov
  • Book 2 (1960-1972): PDF at nsa.gov
  • Book 3 (1972-1980): PDF at nsa.gov
  • Book 4 (1981-1989): PDF at nsa.gov
• The Venona Story (Fort George G. Meade, MD: Center for Cryptologic History, ca. 2001), by Robert Louis Benson (PDF at nsa.gov)

• The Korean War: The SIGINT Background (2000), by David A. Hatch and Robert Louis Benson
  • frame- and JavaScript-dependent page images at Cornell
  • HTML at nsa.gov
• The Origins of the National Security Agency, 1940-1952 (United States Cryptologic History, series V, volume 1; declassified redacted version; 1990), by Thomas L. Burns (PDF at nsa.gov)

• Venona: Soviet Espionage and the American Response, 1939-1957 (1996), ed. by Robert Louis Benson and Michael Warner (HTML and page images at cia.gov)

• So Power Can Be Brought Into Play: SIGINT and the Pusan Perimeter (originally published 2000), by Jill Frahm (HTML at nsa.gov)

• The Most Secret War: Army Signals Intelligence in Vietnam (Fort Belvoir, VA: Military History Office, US Army Intelligence and Security Command, 2003), by James L. Gilbert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spartans in Darkness: American SIGINT and the Indochina War, 1945-1975 (US cryptologic history series VI v. 7, declassified redacted version (2007); with supplementary file of additional declassified portions released 2008), by Robert J. Hanyok (PDF files with commentary at fas.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Survey: Corporate Uses of Cryptography, by Jim Heath (HTML at viacorp.com)

• Cracking DES: Secrets of Encryption Research, Wiretap Politics and Chip Design (illustrated HTML at cryptome.org and other sites)

• Military Cryptanalysis (4 volumes originally issued 1938-1941; declassified version published 2005), by William F. Friedman (PDF files at nsa.gov)

• The Anglo-American Telegraphic Code to Cheapen Telegraphy and to Furnish a Complete Cypher (third edition; New York: Anglo-American Code and Cypher Co., 1891)
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes (ca. 1879), by Ella Cheever Thayer (Gutenberg text)

• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences at a Reception Given to the Captain and Officers of the Jeannette Search Expedition (San Francisco, 1881), by California Academy of Sciences (page images at LOC)

• The Telegraph Messenger Boy: or, The Straight Road to Success (New York: Chatterton-Peck Co., c1904), by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Heroes of the Telegraph, by John Munro (Gutenberg text)

• The Relation of the Government to the Telegraph, by David Ames Wells (page images at MOA)

• The Battery and the Boiler, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)

• Radiomovies, Radiovision, Television (Washington: National Capital Press, c1929), by C. Francis Jenkins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Signalling Across Space Without Wires: Being a Description of the Work of Hertz and His Successors (fourth edition, ca. 1911), by Oliver Lodge (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Tom Swift and His Wireless Message: or, The Castaways of Earthquake Island, by Victor Appleton (Gutenberg text)
• The Wireless Station at Silver Fox Farm (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., c1910), by James Otis (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The American Boys' Book of Signs, Signals and Symbols (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1918), by Daniel Carter Beard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Book of Symbols for Camp Fire Girls (New York: Camp Fire Outfitting Co., 1915), by Charlotte V. Gulick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Semiotics for Beginners, by Daniel Chandler (illustrated HTML in the UK)

• The Unicode Standard, Version 3.0, by Unicode Consortium (HTML at unicode.org)

• The Swastika: The Earliest Known Symbol, and its Migrations, With Observations on the Migration of Certain Industries in Prehistoric times (1896), by Thomas Wilson
  • DjVu at Georgia
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at northvegr.org

• A Century of Emblems (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878), by George Spencer Cautley (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Emblems, Divine and Moral, Together With Hieroglyphicks of the Life of Man, by Francis Quarles (page images at PSU)
• Emblems of Love, in Four Languages, Dedicated to the Ladys (1680s), by Philip Ayres (page images at PSU)
• Pia Desideria, or, Divine Addresses, In Three Books (1678), by Herman Hugo, trans. by Edmund Arwaker (page images at PSU)

• Shakespeare and the Emblem Writers: An Exposition of Their Similarities of Thought and Expression; Preceded by a View of Emblem-Literature Down to A. D. 1616 (London: Trübner and Co., 1870), by Henry Green (page images at HathiTrust)

• Atalanta Fugiens (English translation from MS Sloane 3645 in the British library), by Michael Maier
  • HTML with commentary at alchemywebsite.com
  • HTML with commentary at levity.com
• The Book of Emblems (in Latin and English), by Andrea Alciati (illustrated HTML with commentary at mun.ca)
• Choice of Emblemes (without introductory materials or sidenotes), by Geffrey Whitney (illustrated HTML with commentary at mun.ca)
• A Choice of Emblemes, and Other Devises (London: Francis Raphelengius, 1586), by Geffrey Whitney (page images at PSU)
• The Heroicall Devises of M. Claudius Paradin, Whereunto are Added the Lord Gabriel Symeons and Others (London: William Kearney, 1591), by Claude Paradin (page images at PSU)

• Handboek der Wapenkunde (second edition, in Dutch; Amsterdam: G. Theod. Bom, 1875), by J. B. Rietstap (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Learning to Read Music, by Peter Nickol (illustrated HTML with commentary at HowTo)

• Algebraic Semantics in Language and Philosophy, by Godehard Link (PDF at Stanford)
• Linguistic Individuals, by Almerindo E. Ojeda (PDF at Stanford)
• Logic and Representation, by Robert C. Moore (PDF at Stanford)
• Propositional Attitudes: The Role of Content in Logic, Language, and Mind, ed. by C. Anthony Anderson and Joseph Owens (PDF at Stanford)
• What is Meaning? Studies in the Development of Significance (London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1903), by Victoria Welby
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The American Boys' Book of Signs, Signals and Symbols (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1918), by Daniel Carter Beard (multiple formats at archive.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.