CONTENTS
Preface to the Revised Edition Preface A Few Words
1. One Day of Magic
THE PAGENT OF CRYPTOLOGY
2. The First 3,000 Years 3. The Rise of the West 4. On the Origin of a Species 5. The Era of the Black Chambers 6. The Contribution of the Dilettantes 7. Crises of the Union 8. The Professor, the Soldier, and the Man on Devil's Island 9. Room 40 10. A War of Intercepts: I 11. A War of Intercepts: II 12. Two Americans 13. Secrecy for Sale 14. Duel in the Ether: The Axis 15. Duel in the Ether: Neutrals and Allies 16. Censors, Scramblers, and Spies 17. The Scrutable Orientals 18. Russkaya Kriptologiya ("Russian Cryptology") 19. N.S.A.
SIDESHOWS
20. The Anatomy of Cryptology 21. Heterogeneous Impulses 22. Rumrunners, Businessmen, and Makers of Non-secret Codes 23. Ciphers in the Past Tense 24. The Pathology of Cryptology
PARACRYPTOLOGY
25. Ancestral Voices 26. Messages from Outer Space
THE NEW CRYPTOLOGY
27. Cryptology Goes Public
Bibliography Notes to Text Acknowledgments Notes to Illustrations Index