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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