History of Cryptography and Cryptanalysis

John F. Dooley is the William and Marilyn Ingersoll Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. Before returning to teaching in 2001, he spent more than 15 years in the software industry as a developer, designer, and manager working for companies such as Bell Telephone Laboratories, McDonnell Douglas, IBM, and Motorola. His other publications include the popular Springer title Codes, Ciphers and Spies: Tales of Military Intelligence in World War I.

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2019“Dooley (emer., Knox College) provides an excellent overview of cryptographic devices and algorithms, starting with ancient Rome and up to WW II, and covering monoalphabetic ciphers, polyalphabetic substitutions, the Vigenére cipher, and cipher machines such as Enigma. … This is a book that needs to be read!” (J. Johnson, Choice, Vol. 56 (10), June, 2019)

• Introduction: A Revolutionary Cipher.- Crypto Before 1500: A Bit of Magic.- The Black Chambers: 1500 – 1776.- Crypto Goes to War:  The American Revolution.- Crypto Goes to War: The American Civil War 1861 – 1865.- Crypto and the War to End All Wars: 1914 – 1919.- The Interwar Period: 1919 – 1941.- The Rise of the Machines: 1918 – 1941.- Battle Against the Machines: World War II 1939 – 1945.- The Machines Take Over: Computer Cryptography.- Alice and Bob and Whit and Martin: Public-Key Cryptography.- Web and Mobile Device Cryptology.- Cyber Weapons and Cyber Warfare.- Cryptology and the Internet of Things.- What is Next in Cryptology?.- Cipher Mysteries.