It's all in Jon's headline, really: the book teaches Python, not modern cryptography. I've had fun playing with simple codes and code-breaking from books and magazines when I was younger; I hope the ...

This guide on the basics of both cryptography and the Python programming language not only teaches you how to write in secret ciphers with paper and pencil but also how to write your own cipher ...

Hacking Secret Ciphers with Python is a new full-length book on Python programming that uses cryptography as the underlying subject matter. It is available under the Creative Commons noncommercial ...