The Art and Science of Secret Writing (Spring 2013)

Syllabus, Course Guidelines, Project

• Syllabus [PDF]
• Course Guidelines [PDF]
• Project: Position Paper [PDF]

Texts

• Singh, Simon. The Code Book. [Author Site]
• Beezer, Mathematics and Cryptography. [Author Site]
• Levy, Steven. Crypto. [Author Site] [Reading Companion]
• Bamford, James. The Shadow Factory.
• Stephenson, Neal. Crytonomicon. [Author Site]

Practicums

• EM Email
• Hushmail
• Diceware Passphrase generation
• Cryptogram Newsletter [Back Issues] [Subscribe]
• Anguilla


• STEG Steganography
• JPegHideSeek (JPHS) by Allan Latham (DOS/Windows/Linux) [JPHS Program]
• Beezer's screencast of doing the practicum
• Peter Wayner's Disappearing Cryptography [FAQ] [Stego Bit Twiddler]
• Steganalysis - hunting for hidden messages
• One-Time Image - fun with visual cryptography
• OpenStego Application
• Camouflage Software
• Hiding messages into MP3's with MP3Stego
  
• al-Qaeda and Steganography (Ars Technica)
• Many more steganography links at www.topology.org
• More steganography programs [COTSE]


• MONO Monoalphabetic substitution cryptanalysis
• Ciphertext Analysis Tools [Frequency Analysis] [Letter Replacement]
• Count On's Codebreaking [Frequency Analysis]
• Beezer's screencast of doing the practicum
• Cryptogram Helper Applet
• Cryptogram Solver Applet [False Positives]
• The Enigma Device - daily puzzle with monoalphabetic subsitution (not related to German Enigma)
  
• US Army Field Manuals [Field Manual 34402] - frequency tables in Appendix A
• Simon Singh's Letter Frequencies and Substitution Cracking Tool
• Letter Frequency Analysis Calculator
• ETAOIN SHRDLU
• Frequencies in Other Languages


• VIG Vigenere Cryptanalysis
• Beezer's screencast of doing the practicum
• Ciphertext Analysis Tools [Vignere Decryption]
• Count On's Codebreaking [Frequency Analysis]


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


• SDES Simplified DES
• Simplified DES Calculator
  
• Electronic Frontier Foundation's Deep Crack DES cracker
• ASCII Codes
• Decimal/Binary/Hex conversions


• PGP1 Key Generation
  
• GNU Privacy Guard [Manual] [Other Documentation]
• GNU Privacy Guard Installers [Windows] [Mac] [Ubuntu Linux]
• MIT Key Server
• Diceware Passphrase Generation
• Passphrase FAQs [Version 1.0,1993] [Version 1.04, 1997]
• Keyserver Information
• The Web of Trust
• Keysigning Party HOWTO
• International PGP (Historical)
• Where to Get PGP GPG FAQ (Historical)

Sage Worksheets

• Download Test
• RSA Worksheet

Related Links (keyed to readings)

• Singh, Chapter 1
• Georges Perec, author of A Void
• ROT13 - an extremely simple substitution cipher
• Double ROT13 (Comedy)
• Leet Key: ROT13 Add-On for Firefox (works for other encodings)


• Singh, Chapter 2
• Charles Babbage biography [Difference Engine photo]
• Movie: National Treasure (2004), Shades of the Beale Cipher?
• Vigenere Cipher, Trinity College Historical Ciphers


• 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 (from NSA)
• National Security Agency, Cryptologic Heritage site
• Signals Intelligence Today [USA, Overview] [Canada] [Russia]
• Bob Lord's Crypto Museum [US Army M-94] [US Army M-209]
• Enigma Models
• Do-It-Yourself Enigma Machine (!)
• Enigma Simulator (web)[Main Page]
• Enigma Simulator (Windows)
• Build a Paper Enigma
• Many more Enigma links at the Crypto Museum


• Singh, Chapter 4
• Many Enigma links at the Crypto Museum
• Cryptographic Mathematics of Enigma (NSA booklet) [OCR'ed, with photos reproduced]
• Alan Turing Home Page
• Book: Alan Turing: the enigma
• Movie: U-571
• Movie: Enigma (Enigma machine belongs to Mick Jagger)
• Documentary: Decoding Nazi Secrets (Nova)
• Turing Machines: [Simulator 1] [Simulator 2] [Simulator 3]

News

• NSA Utah Data Center [Wired Magazine]

Link Farms

• UC Irvine Freshman Seminar (Bernard Russo)
• Historical Cryptography Web Site (Trinity College Department of Computer Science)
• Crypto Museum (Virtual)
• Peter Gutmann (Professional Paranoid)
• Brad Knowle's Security, Privacy, and Cryptography
• Cryptology Pointers (Helger Lipmaa)
• Cryptome.org
• www.topology.org (requires enabling cookies)
• Ron Rivest's Links (no longer maintained)

Privacy

• The Missing Amendment
• Jam Echelon [@jamechelon.org] [Wired News]
• Spy Software
• Keyboard Logger
• Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
• Electronic Freedom Foundation
• Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act [US Code, Title 50, Chapter 36]
• Federal Intelligence Surveillance Court [Article 1]
• Travel and Privacy (search page for "Privacy")
• Echelon [Menwith Hill]
• Operation Shamrock

Assorted Links (not yet updated)

• ITAR Civil Disobedience
  
• Passwords in MS Word
• MPAA Copyright site
• Edgar Allen Poe Cryptographic Challenge
• Fooling Fingerprint Readers
• Crytography Law Survey (International, by country)(by Bert-Jaap Koops)
• 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 by Cory Doctorow  [Canonical Version]

Other Software (not yet updated)

• 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 (not yet updated)

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.