NY Times: Pigeon Code Baffles British Cryptographers.
“The sorts of code that were constructed during operations were designed only to be able to be read by the senders and the recipients. [snip] If it’s only used once and it’s properly random, and it’s properly guarded by the sender and the recipient, it’s unbreakable.” Cool. I thoroughly appreciate unsolveable mysteries.
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For the people performing the impossible: The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There but for the technology back to olden times: Codes, Cyphers & Other Cryptic & Clandestine Communication.
As for Turing and the other brains there are uncounted biographies.
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The second reference is excellent for whya one time pad is largely unbreakable without a LOT of samples or access to the original pad.
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You would greatly enjoy ‘Cryptonomicon’ by Neal Stephenson.