Part I: Classical Cryptology
1. Monoalphabetic Substitution Ciphers, or MASCs: Disguises for Messages
2. Simple Progression to an Unbreakable Cipher
3. Transposition Ciphers
4. Shakespeare, Jefferson, and JFK
5. World War I and Herbert O. Yardley
6. Matrix Encryption
7. World War II: The Enigma of Germany
8. Cryptologic War against Japan
9. SIGABA: World War II Defense
10. Enciphering Speech
Part II: Modern Cryptology
11. Claude Shannon
12. National Security Agency
13. The Data Encryption Standard
14. The Birth of Public Key Cryptography
15. Attacking RSA
16. Primality Testing and Complexity Theory
17. Authenticity
18. Pretty Good Privacy and Bad Politics
19. Stream Ciphers
20. Suite B All-Stars
21. Toward Tomorrow
Biography
Craig P. Bauer is an associate professor of mathematics at York College of Pennsylvania and the editor-in-chief of Cryptologia. He was the 2011-2012 Scholar-in-Residence at the National Security Agency (NSA) Center for Cryptologic History, where he wrote several papers for NSA journals, gave numerous lectures, and made substantial progress on a second book focused on unsolved codes and ciphers. He earned a PhD in mathematics at North Carolina State University.
