Recently in a Campaign our DM gave us a code to solve and I was really struggling to solve it. It ended up being a Caesar Shift to solve it. So now I am interested in recommendations on books that cover different code breaking methods. Obviously doing a Google search brings up a lot of books but wondered if anyone in this community has purchased any and have recommendations?
All the books I read on the subject were many, many years ago.
For the sort of code you're going to encounter in D&D games, your main tool is letter frequency.
If you're interested in modern cryptography, I've heard good things about Bruce Schnier's Applied Cryptography. If you're interested in the history, try David Kahn's The Codebreakers. (I've read neither of these.)
But serious cryptography these days requires a fair amount of mathematical background, specifically in number theory.
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Recently in a Campaign our DM gave us a code to solve and I was really struggling to solve it. It ended up being a Caesar Shift to solve it. So now I am interested in recommendations on books that cover different code breaking methods. Obviously doing a Google search brings up a lot of books but wondered if anyone in this community has purchased any and have recommendations?
All the books I read on the subject were many, many years ago.
For the sort of code you're going to encounter in D&D games, your main tool is letter frequency.
If you're interested in modern cryptography, I've heard good things about Bruce Schnier's Applied Cryptography. If you're interested in the history, try David Kahn's The Codebreakers. (I've read neither of these.)
But serious cryptography these days requires a fair amount of mathematical background, specifically in number theory.