Welcome to the Cryptographic Link Farm. Feel
free to graze…
Historical background reading
http://www.nsa.gov/museum/
http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/
http://www.vectorsite.net/ttcode.html
http://pages.cthome.net/fwc/CODE.HTM
Download and install the Visual Enigma simulator from
http://www.blueangel.demon.co.uk/crypto/CSG/index.html
Breaking Enigma
http://uboat.net/technical/enigma.htm
http://www.math.miami.edu/~harald/enigma/enigma.html
Breaking the Japanese "Purple" code
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/jhchuah/encrypt/
http://www.mkheritage.co.uk/bpt/japcdsch2.html
The Rosenbergs
http://www.crimelibrary.com/rosen/rosenmain.htm
The Venona decrypts that condemned them
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/venona/intercepts.html
The Zimmerman Telegram
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/zimmermann_telegram/zimmermann_telegram.html
Who really discovered RSA - see The History of Non-Secret Encryption
http://www.cesg.gov.uk/publications/index.htm
An entire book written without the letter E
http://www.spinelessbooks.com/gadsby/
Codebooks
http://www.cix.co.uk/~klockstone/codebook.htm
http://hem.passagen.se/tan01/code.html
The Big Boys…
The Block Cipher Lounge - the candidate block ciphers for the next generation standard.
http://www.ii.uib.no/~larsr/aes.html
80 or so Cryptographic courses from around the world (mostly US)
http://avirubin.com/courses.html
A self-study course in Block Cipher Cryptanalysis
http://www.counterpane.com/self-study.html
Handbook of Applied Cryptography - free Chapters of this book available for download
http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac.
Passwords, and how to pick good ones.
http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html
http://world.std.com/~reinhold/passgen.html
Latest Research
http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/
Smart Cards, and how to hack them
http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/1578/smart.htm
Peter Gutmann's Crypto tutorial, including some stuff on Smart Cards
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/tutorial/.
to be extended…….