📚 Cryptography

Secrets built on mathematics: how codes are made and broken, from ancient ciphers to public keys, and the arithmetic that keeps the internet honest.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject cryptography in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Mathematical recreations and problems of past and present times	W. W. Rouse Ball	1892	102
	Alan Turing	Andrew Hodges	1983	27
	The Code Book	Simon Singh	1999	23
	The Code Book for Young People	Simon Singh	2002	11
	Security protocols	Bruce Christianson	2003	11
	Crypto	Steven Levy	2001	10
	Foundations of Cryptography	Oded Goldreich	2001	9
	Cryptology	Richard E. Klima	2012	9
	Code girls	Liza Mundy	2017	9
	Codes & Secret Writing	Herbert S. Zim	1948	8
	The codebreakers	David Kahn	1966	8
	The codebreakers	David Kahn	1967	8
	Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing	Martin Gardner	1972	8
	Applied Cryptography	Bruce Schneier	1994	8
	The pattern on the stone	W. Daniel Hillis	1998	8
	Cryptography	Laurence Dwight Smith	1943	7
	Cryptanalysis	Helen Fouché Gaines	1956	7
	Secret warfare	Bruce Norman	1973	7
	Enigma	Władysław Kozaczuk	1984	7
	Battle of wits	Stephen Budiansky	2000	7
	Codebreakers' victory	Hervie Haufler	2003	7
	Codes and ciphers	A. D'Agapeyeff	1939	6
	Elementary cryptanalysis	Abraham Sinkov	1966	6
	The Hut Six Story	Gordon Welchman	1982	6
	Handbook of applied cryptography	Alfred J. Menezes	1996	6
	The mathematics of ciphers	S. C. Coutinho	1998	6
	Cracking Codes	Diana Kimpton	2003	6
	Secret and urgent	Fletcher Pratt	1939	5
	Codes and ciphers	R. F. Churchhouse	2001	5
	Codebreaker	Stephen Pincock	2006	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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