Cryptography Independent Study (Spring 2002)

Links

• Textbook: Cryptography and Network Security, by W. Stallings [WWW site]
• CounterPane [Subscribe to Cryptogram]
• Kevin McCurley [Crypto] [DigiCrime]
• Steganography Article by Neil F. Johnson
• Venona Project - NSA declassification of Soviet communications from the 1940's
• One-time Pad FAQ - with a great photo
• Zimmerman Telegram [US State Dept] [History, with JPEGs] [More images]
• Francis Litterio's Cryptography Page
• Arnold Reinhold's Papers [Diceware] [PGP Passphrases (HTML)] [PGP Passphrases (Signed)]
• Digital Timestamping Service
• Anonymous Remailers [Point] [Counterpoint]
• Ron Rivest's Links

Software

• WinZip (Win/DOS) - compression software to shrink and obscure messages
• JPHS (JPegHideSeek by Allan Latham, DOS/Win/Linux) - hide small files in JPEG images
• CAP (Windows) - Encrypt/decrypt/analyze several classical ciphers
• Crypto Drop Box at American Cryptogram Association
  • US Army Field Manual - frequency tables (PDF); single, double, triple
  • CryptAid - 16-bit DOS. Frequency analysis, on-the-fly monoalphabetic solution testing
  • Vigenere Solver - DOS command line - untested
• Enigma 2.0 (Windows) - an Enigma machine simulator
• Joe Peschel's DOE SysWorks [Historical Ciphers Tools]
  • J.W. Stumpel's Mono is a nice tool for mono-alphabetic substitution (C Source/Windows)
  • Letcount does a nice job of frequency analysis (C source)
• Stuart Prescott's Cryptography Report [Toolkit (PASCAL programs)]
• Antique Software: Turbo Pascal 5.5 [Zip file]
• Pretty Good Privacy (Freeware versions from MIT)

Bibliography

Bamford, James. The Puzzle Palace

The first big book on the NSA and its predecessors.

Bamford, James. Body of Secrets

A very recent update of The Puzzle Palace.

Kahn, David. The Codebreakers

The definitive history. Somewhat dated (the orginal is from 1967, an updated version has some add-ons)

Singh, Simon. The Code Book

Another history. Shorter, newer and more entertaining than the above.

Hodges, Andrew. Alan Turing: the Enigma

Biography of Alan Turing. German Enigma cipher plus early computer science.

Schneier, Bruce. Applied Cryptography

Published in the early 90's. Already a classic. Mathematics, protocols, implementations.

Biham, Eli and Shamir, Adi. Differential Cryptanalysis of the Data Encryption Standard (DES)

One of the earliest examples of this variety of cryptanalysis.

Electronic Frontier Foundation. Cracking DES

Brute force with cheap chips. Entertaining.

Stephenson, Neal. Crytonomicon (A novel)

Fun. The featured encryption is Pontifex.

Assignments

Rob Beezer, beezer@ups.edu, Spring 2002.