The Art and Science of Secret Writing (Spring 2005)

Syllabus, Course Guidelines

Syllabus  [PDF]
Course Guidelines  [PDF]

Texts

• Singh, Simon. The Code Book.
• Beezer, Mathematics and Cryptography.
  
• Levy, Steven. Crypto.
• Schneier, Bruce. Secrets and Lies.
• Stephenson, Neal. Crytonomicon.
• Fowler, Mark. Codes and Ciphers.

Practicums

1. EM Email
• Hushmail
• Diceware Passphrase generation
• Cryptogram Newsletter  [Subscribe]
  
• Forwarding UPS Email
• Anguilla


2. STEG Steganography
• Compression/Decompression by WinZip
• JPegHideSeek by Allan Latham (DOS/Windows/Linux) JPHS
• Google Images
• Peter Wayner's Disappearing Cryptography [FAQ] [Stego Bit Twiddler] [Message Hiding & Baseball]
• Steganalysis - hunting for hidden messages
  
• Camouflage Software
• Hiding messages into MP3's with MP3Stego
  
• Many more steganography links at www.topology.org
  


3. MONO Monoalphabetic substitution cryptanalysis
• Mono by J.W. Stumpel (DOS with C Source)
• Letcount simple frequency analysis (C source)  [DOS Executable]
  
• TextPad - very nice text editor (Windows, nagware)
  
• Cryptogram Helper Applet
• Cryptogram Solver Applet [False Positives]
• The Enigma Device - daily puzzle with monoalphabetic subsitution (not related to Germa Enigma)
  
• US Army Field Manuals [Field Manual 34402] - frequency tables in Appendix A
• Simon Singh's Letter Frequencies and Simple Frequency Counter
• Letter Frequency Analysis Calculator
• ETAOIN SHRDLU
• Frequencies in Other Languages


4. VIG Vigenere Cryptanalysis
   
• Vigenere Solver - DOS command line


5. PONT Pontifex/Solitaire Stream Cipher Algorithm
• The Algorithm
• A weakness in Pontifex/Solitaire [Paul Crowley's Crypto Site]
  


6. SDES Simplified DES
   
• Simplified DES Calculator
  
• ASCII Codes
  
7. PGP1 Key Generation
   
• PGP.com [Freeware page]
• International PGP
• MIT PGP (now outdated)
• GNU Privacy Guard
  
• Where to Get PGP GPG FAQ
• Diceware Passphrase Generation
• Passphrase FAQ
• More Passphrase FAQs [Version 1.0,1993] [Version 1.04, 1997]
• PGP Freeware (v7.x) with Eudora
• The Web of Trust
• Keysigning Party HOWTO
  
8. PGP2 Encryption
   
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9. PGP3 Digital Signatures
   
• Hushmail Technical Details
• SSL Protocol
  
10. TIME TimeStamping
    
• Stamper - free PGP-compatible timestamping service
  
11. ANON Anonymous Remailers
    
• Remailer Introduction @dizum.com
  
• APAS Anonymous Remailer FAQ
  
• Remailer Configurations, Keys, Usage Stats (noreply.org's Thesaurus)
  
• Remailer Reliability (Type I only) (noreply.org)
  
• MixMaster (Type II) WWW interface (Chicago remailer) W3 Anonymous Remailer
  
• André Bacard's Privacy Page [Point: Anonymous Remailer FAQ] [Counterpoint: Strassmann/Marlow]
  
Some Remailers

• Chicago
• Paranoia
• Dizum
• QuickSilver (Windows email client with Mixmaster support)
  
  

Related Links (keyed to readings)

• Singh, Chapter 1
• Georges Perec, author of  A Void
• ROT13 FAQ - an extremely simple substitution cipher
• ROT13 Plugin for Eudora
• Singh, Chapter 2
• Charles Babbage biography [Difference Engine photo]
• Movie:  National Treasure, Shades of the Beale Cipher?
  
• Singh, Chapter 3
• Zimmerman Telegram [History & Images]
• Book: Zimmerman Telegram
  
• One-time Pad FAQ - with a great photo
• Venona Project US decryption of Soviet communications in the 1940's from reused one-time pads
• Signals Intelligence Today [USA, Overview] [Canada] [Russia]
• Bob Lord's Crypto Museum [US Army M-94][US Army M-209]
  
• NSA Photo Gallery [Enigma] [Bombe]
  
• Enigma Photo (NSA)
• Enigma Simulators [Applet] [Enigma 2.0, Windows]
• Build a Paper Enigma
  
• Many more Enigma links at Joe Peschel's DOE SysWorks
  
• Singh, Chapter 4
• Cryptographic Mathematics of Enigma (NSA booklet, photos of internal workings)
• Alan Turing Home Page
• Book:  Alan Turing: the enigma
  
• Turing Machines [Virtual Turing Machine 1] [Virtual Turing Machine 2] [Java Simulator 1] [Java Simulator 2] [Software]
• Singh, Chapter 5
• Navajo Code Talkers
• Movie:  Navajo Code Talkers
  
• Singh, Chapter 6
• Cypherpunks [1] [2]
• Lorenz SZ40 [Photo] [Colossus]
• DES Security Challenge (DES is Lucifer's follow-on)
• DES Cracker (Electronic Freedom Foundation)
• Book:  Cracking DES
  
• Book: Codebreakers,  David Kahn
• Home Pages:  Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir,  Leonard Adelman
  
• Testing Prime Numbers
• RSA Factoring Challenge
• RSA Demos (untested) [Christopher Jordan's] [Roger Morrison's]
  
• Singh, Chapter 7
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Electronic Privacy Information Center  [Patriot Act]
• ITAR Civil Disobedience
• Book:  Secret Power, Nicky Hager (NSA partnerships with other countries)
• Echelon
• Menwith Hill
• International PGP
• OpenPGP
• GNU Privacy Guard (GPG)
  
• Singh, Chapter 8
• NSA and Crypto AG
• Scientific American Article on Quantum Cryptography [January 2005] 
• Magiq Technologies
• id Quantique
• Random Numbers of Quantum Origin
  
• Beezer
• Flash Memory Reader (discover the trick using digits base 10)
• Misc (looking for a home)
  
• Secure Hash Standard (Revised, FIPS 180-1)
• NIST DES Fact Sheet
• Approved Encryption Algorithms at NIST (AES, Skipjack, DES, Triple DES)
• IDEA Links

Student Software

• Brendon Vitz's Substitution Cipher
• Calvin Feder's Vignere Aid
• Walker Lindley's Swiss Army Knife Encryption Applet
  

News

• 2005-03-01  Delayed Password Disclosure [News Article] [Technical Details]
  
• 2005-01-31 Randomness and the iPod Shuffle, by Steven Levy (Crypto author)
  
• 2005-01-31 Cracking the Texas Instruments DST RFID
  
• Wired Magazine's Privacy Matters
• Jet Blue and Passenger Data
• Diebold Electron Systems' voting machines
• Keyboard Loggers [Upheld] [Magic Lantern]
• Encrypting Executable Programs

Privacy

• Jam Echelon [@cipherwar.com]
• Spy Software
• Keyboard Logger
• Electronic Freedom Foundation
• Don't Spy On.US
• Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act [US Code, Title 50, Chapter 36]
• Federal Intelligence Surveillance Court [Article 1] [Article 2] [Article 3]
• Travel and Privacy
• Echelon [Menwith Hill][Sources]
• Operation Shamrock

Link Farms

• Peter Gutmann (Professional Paranoid) [Link Farm, Original] [Link Farm, US Mirror]
• Francis Litterio's Cryptography Page
• Cryptology Pointers (Helger Lipmaa)
• Cryptome.org
• www.topology.org
• Ron Rivest's Links

Assorted Links

• ITAR Civil Disobedience
  
• Passwords in MS Word
• MPAA Copyright site
• Edgar Allen Poe Cryptographic Challenge
• Fooling Fingerprint Readers
• Crytography Laws, by Country
• Homeland Insecurity - Atlantic Monthly profile of Bruce Schneier (Sept 2002)
• A Cryptograhic Compendium (by John Savard)
• NSA Center for Cryptologic History
• The Complete, Unofficial TEMPEST Information Page
• CounterPane [Subscribe to Cryptogram]
• Kevin McCurley [Crypto] [DigiCrime]
• Steganography Article by Neil F. Johnson
• Randomness in Crypto

Digital Rights Management

• Digital Rights Management by Cory Doctorow  [Canonical Version]
  

Other Software

• Eudora Email Client [Download Page]
• 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
• Joe Peschel's DOE SysWorks [Historical Ciphers Tools]
• Stuart Prescott's Cryptography Report [Toolkit (PASCAL programs)]
• Antique Software: Turbo Pascal 5.5 [Zip file]
• Pretty Good Privacy (Freeware versions from MIT)
• Cryptography with Java Applets (textbook by David Bishop) [Applets]

Bibliography

Diffie, Whitfield; Landau, Susan. Privacy On the Line : The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption

Availble to UPS community on-line through NetLibrary.

Bamford, James. The Puzzle Palace.

A history and expose of the NSA. [Chapter 8] [Chapter 9] [Chapter 10]

Bamford, James. Body of Secrets

A very recent update of The Puzzle Palace.

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.

Electronic Frontier Foundation. Cracking DES

Brute force with cheap chips. Entertaining.

Hager, Nicky. Secret Power

New Zealand's role in ECHELON, UKUSA Alliance, NSA partnerships. [Chapter 1] [Chapter 2]

Stallings, W. Cryptography and Network Security.

Advanced textbook.

Cryptologia

Quarterly journal for cryptology.

Stephenson, Neal. Crytonomicon

Fun. The featured encryption is Pontifex.

Brown, Dan. The Davinci Code

A novel based on cryptology. Bestseller with a main character who is a cryptographer.