MCS 223: Cryptography

Cryptology Organizations and Companies

•  American Cryptogram Association
• RSA
• NSA
• Visit the National Cryptologic Museum
• Aegean Park Press sells many books, including classic texts, on cryptography and related topics.
• Bletchley Park
  • Bletchley Park Trust
  • Codes and Ciphers in the Second World War
• Alan Turing home page

Crypto News

• On October 2, 2000, Rijndael was selected as the new Advanced Encryption Standard, replacing DES. For details, click here.  For more information about Rijndael, click here.
• A 150 year old cryptosystem, known as the "Edgar Allan Poe Cryptographic Challenge", has finally been solved: click here.

Video Supplement

• Decoding Nazi Secrets

Language and Literature

• Poe
• The Gold-Bug
• Ciphers of Edgar Allan Poe
• The Adventure of the Dancing Men,  by A. Conan Doyle

Applets

• CipherClerk (encipher/decipher with Vigenere and others)
• Another Vigenere applet
• Help with cryptograms
• Practice using the Euclidean algorithm (Paul Garrett, U. Minnesota)

Other Courses

• Cryptography Lecture Notes (Ed Schaefer, Santa Clara U.)
• Cryptography Course (UCSD)
• Cryptology Course Materials (David Wright, Oklahoma State)
• Honors Seminar in Cryptography (Jeremy Teitelbaum, UIC)
• Math 4410/5410 - Coding Theory and Cryptology (Bill Cherowitzo, CUDenver)
• Paul Garrett: Crypto and Number Theory
• C&O 685:  Mathematics of Public-Key Cryptography (Doug Stinson, U. Waterloo)
• Computer Security (CS 487)  (Jim Wolper, IdahoSU)
• Math/Physics 316 - Protecting Information: Applications of Abstract Algebra and Quantum Physics (Williams)

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