The list of Useful(?) URL's used.

• news:talk.politics.crypto
  
  
• news:sci.crypt.research
  
  
• news:sci.crypt
  Mostly these newsgroups either contain scientific discussion on how vital information may be held securely, or polemics regarding the censorship on TV, the internet . . .
  
  
• http://www.achiever.com/freehmpg/cryptology/crypto.html
  
  
• http://rschp2.anu.edu.au:8080/cipher.html
  This resource contained a lot of information on the substitution method and the Vigenere cipher Some outline of ways of attacking themis also included.
  
  
• http://www.ruhr.de/home/zaphod/beale.html
  The mystery of the Beale ciphers sounds interesting, but this page certainly did nothing to answer my fundamental question :What are the Beale Ciphers?
  
  
• http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/secret/secret.html
  
  
• http://raphael.math.uic.edu/~jeremy/crypt/intro.html
  This resource contained a lot of information on the Vigenere cipher and ways of attacking it.
  
  
• http://www.tcst.com/~tighe/cryptology/enigma/enigma.html
  Some pictures of the German WWII Enigma machine, and not much detail.
  
  
• http://www.essi.fr/~chatenay/Crypto/
  
  
• http://www.eskimo.com/~weidai/cryptlib.html
  
  
• http://www.quadralay.com/www/Crypt/sci-crypt/crypt01.html
  The great Cryptography FAQ!! Lots of info regarding almost everything you want to know about cryptography.
  
  
• http://www.trincoll.edu/cpsc/cryptography/
  
  
• http://www.trincoll.edu/cpsc/cryptography/CryptoTool.html
  An interesting little downloadable package for the Mac which solves various ciphers. Pity I don,t have a Mac!
  
  
• http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/
  The home of every paper Ross Anderson has ever written . . .
  There are also some useful pointers to other sources.
  
  
• http://www.enter.net/~chronos/cryptolog1.html
  
  
• http://www.virtualschool.edu/mon/Crypto.html
  
  
• http://www.3wnet.com/webdex/computer/security/cryptogr.html
  
  
• http://www2.ecst.csuchico.edu/~atman/Crypto/cryptoindex.html
  
  
  
  
• http://www.openmarket.com/techinfo/applied.htm
  
  
• ftp://ftp.wimsey.com/pub/crypto
  
  
• http://www.quadralay.com/www/Crypt/sci-crypt/crypt10.html#1008
  A large index of cryptography sites and the rules that surround them
  
  
• ftp://ftp.dsi.unimi.it:/pub/security/crypt/
  
  
• ftp://ftp.uu.net/comp.sources.unix/volume10/cbw/

The list of Useful(?) Paper based resources.

• Anderson, R., On Fibonacci Keystram GeneratorsKU Leuven workshop on cryptographic algorithms 1995
  This paper is written for professional computer security people, by computer security people, and as such it is heavy reading. There is a lot of interesting information which is irrelevant to the assignment but it does discuss the various forms of a Fibonaci relation.
  
  
• Anderson, R., Searching for the Optimum Correlation Attack KU Leuven workshop on cryptographic algorithms 1995
  While this paper i itself did not help, it pointed is to the direction of using the Index of Coincidence.
  
  
• Great Britain. War Office. General Staff., Manual of cryptographyc 1914
  LOTS of information on the Enigma and Variations
  
  
• Welsh, D. J. A., Codes and cryptography, Clarendon Press, 1988
  Aimed more at the protection of communications than simple ciphers.