Experienced code-breakers will be looking, essentially, for three things by which to judge whether Bali has been a success or a failure.

ECONOMIST: Climate change

In The Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots, to Quantum Cryptography, due out soon from Doubleday, British author Simon Singh traces the evolution of the centuries-old battle between code writers and code breakers.

FORBES: I've got a secret

How would they know about our women prisoners of war, or female military astronauts and code breakers, and the courage of young African-American women soldiers during World War II?

WHITEHOUSE: We Started With A Dream