As I posted earlier, I have been reading Simon Singh's 'The Code Book' and I have now finished it, in fact I have re-read some of the more interesting chapters again.
This is a brilliant book charting the history of cryptography and its opposite number cryptoanalysis. It is no wonder that some computing degree courses use this book as a course text book. It gives a thorough explanation of how the Nazi Enigma codes were broken and the brilliant work done by the Bletchley Park experts in achieving that. It also goes into the deciphering of ancient scripts of extinct languages such as the Linear B tablets of Bronze Age Greece.
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