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Cryptography: The Science of Secret Writing
by Laurence D. Smith

ISBN: 048620247X
Dover Publications Price: $8.95
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Elementary account of ciphers, history, types, etc., with 151 examples of ciphers and codes. Solutions. Good introduction for beginners.

Table of Contents for Cryptography: The Science of Secret Writing
Preface
I. Secret Weapon No. One
II. The History of Secret Writing
III. Transposition Ciphers
IV. Substitution Ciphers
V. Codes Compared with Ciphers
VI. Cryptanalysis
Transposition Ciphers
Informal Substitution Ciphers
Formal Substitution Ciphers
VII. Problems
VIII. Solutions
Appendices
a. Some notes on the enciphering of Japanese
b. The Baconian biliteral cipher
c. Frequency tables
d. Bibliography
e. Definitions
Index

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