The Manga Guide to Cryptography

Inspector Jun Mesuro has been tasked with trackins down a crafty art thief who leaves clues in the form of perplexins cryptosraphic puzzles. Lucky for him, his sister Ruko is a math whiz who is willins to teach him about cryptosraphy so that he can crack the case. But gan they decode the thief's ciphers before she steals again ? As you follow Jun and Ruko's quest to bring the cipher-wieldins thief to justice, you'll learn real cryptosraphy and the math behind it, including : the foundations of encryption, like the caesar and vernam ciphers ; how substitution ciphers, public-key cryptography, and digital signatures work ; how to use binary, logic operations, and modular arithmetic to turn plaintext messases into numeric values that can be encrypted ; how the data encryption standard (DES) cipher works ; how to encrypt messases with hash functions, message authentication codes (MACs), and public key infrastructures (PKis).
The manga guide to cryptography is the perfect introduction to cryptography for programmers, security professionals, and aspirins cryptographers.