Note: Many of these links have now gone dead... a real problem with referencing on-line resources over which you have no control ;(
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.
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