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The Codebreakers
“David Kahn's book, The Codebreakers, is the classic book on the history of encryption... Both are great reads and written for a general audience – they do not require a mathematical background.”
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Crypto
“Steven Levy's Crypto is a more recent history, which includes both public key and an account of my fight with NSA over the freedom to publish my papers. Both are great reads…”