Crypto History

• The Story of Alice and Bob
• Cryptography Timeline (Carl Ellison)
• Pre-War Period & Paper Cryptography
  • A-Z Cryptology (Classical Ciphers)
  • The Second Cryptographic Shakespeare (Penn Leary)
  • CipherClerk
  • "Cryptography in an algebraic alphabet" by Lester S. Hill
• World War II
  • WII/Cryptography Timeline
  • War Department Technical Manual Division Field Code (May 18, 1942 - scanned)
  • Code ciphers (Encode/decode Navajo texts @ Windtalkers)
  • The Newmanry History (26.10.02)
  • Purple
    • Books
      • The Emperor's Codes: The Breaking of Japan's Secret Ciphers
        (Michael Smith, 2001)
      • Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II
        (Stephen Budiansky, 2000)
      • The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet
        (David Kahn, 1996)
    • Purple, Coral and Jade (John Sarvard)
    • Frode Weierud's Cryptology page
  • @Enigma
  • Colossus II, Lorentz cipher
    • 80/et?ac=003549412141223&rtmo=VP4uZ5Zx&atmo=tttttttd&pg=/et/00/9/7/ecfcol07.html (Colossal code of silence broken)
    • General Report on Tunny (Part of)
    • Return of Colossus marks D-Day (BBC News)
  • SIGABA, American rotor machine
    • Electronic Cipher Machine (ECM) Mark II (Page by USS Pampanito)
    • The ECM Mark II, also known as SIGABA, M-134-C, and CSP-889 (Overview by John Savard)
• Crypto Machine Menu Page (Jerry Proc, includes both pre-war and post-war machines)
• Post-War period
  • Shannon
    • Shannon's Legacy (James Massey)
  • Korean War
    • NSA Korean War Commemoration (NSA)
    • Korea War Comint
  • NSAM-160
  • Cryptographer Charges Sandia Labs Director
• HMCS HAIDA - Tour Stop 15
• Information Theft in the Computer Age. Surveying the Scene.
• Mad Cow Cryptography Page (has scanned papers of Shannon, Feistel)
• Frode Weierud's Cryptology Page
• Historical Ciphers (Peschel)
• History of PKC
  • How PKC was Invented (Living Internet)
• Books
  • Alan Turing (Andrew Hodges)
  • Alan Turing The Enigma of Intelligence (by Andrew Hodges)
• Cryptome
• Historians
  • CSG (Crypto Simulation Group) (Group interested in history/research of cryptography)
• Pre-PKC Papers
  • La cryptographie militaire (Auguste Kerckhoffs, 1883 (retyped))
  • General Report on Tunny (Donald Michie, Jack Good, etc (partially, OCR-d and corrected, recently declassified))
  • Documents written by the late Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander while working as a cryptanalyst at Bletchley Park
  • Turing's Treatise on Enigma (Alan Turing, (retyped but not fully, classified until 1996))
  • A Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude E. Shannon
  • Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems (Claude Shannon, 1949 (scanned))
  • Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems (Claude Shannon, 1949 (retyped, with possible errors))
  • Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Lambros D. Callimahos)
  • Cryptography and Computer Privacy (Horst Feistel, 1973 (scanned))
  • The Story of Non-Secret Encryption (CESG)
    • A Note on 'Non-Secret Encryption' (Clifford Cocks, 1973 (classified until 1997))
    • Non-Secret Encryption Using a Finite Field (Malcolm Williamson, 1974 (classified until 1997))
    • Thoughts on Cheaper Non-Secret Encryption (Malcolm Williamson, 1976 (classified until 1997))
    • The history of Non-Secret Encryption (James Ellis, 1987 (classified until 1997))
• General security papers of historic interest
  • MULTICS Security Evaluation: Vulnerability Analysis (Karger, Schell, 1974)

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