This Festschrift volume is published in honor of David Kahn and is the outcome of a Fest held in Luxembourg in 2010 on the occasion of David Kahn's 80th birthday. The title of this books leans on the title of a serious history of cryptology named "The Codebreakers", written by David Kahn and published in 1967.
This book contains 35 talks dealing with cryptography as a whole. They are organized in topical section named: history, technology - past, present, future, efficient cryptographic implementations, treachery and perfidy, information security, cryptanalysis, side-channel attacks, randomness embedded system security, public-key cryptography, and models and protocols.