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- From: cme@ellisun.sw.stratus.com (Carl Ellison)
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- Subject: Re: Plebeian Cryptologist
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- Date: 9 Oct 92 18:03:09 GMT
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- There is a FAQ being edited for this newsgroup.
- There is another prepared by RSA Inc. avbl by FTP from rsa.com
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- Here's my list of books, etc., for beginners. This list is heavy on
- the cryptanalysis side, rather than the cryptography side, on purpose.
- It is a rule of thumb that no one should attempt to design a
- cryptosystem without having practiced breaking them.
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- David Kahn, The Codebreakers, Macmillan, 1967
- (definitive history of cryptology up to WW-II)
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- Gordon Welchman, The Hut Six Story, McGraw-Hill, 1982
- (excellent description of his WW-II crypto work
- (breaking the German Enigma); discussion of modern
- cryptological implications)
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- H. F. Gaines, Cryptanalysis, Dover, 1956 (originally 1939)
- (pre-WW-II cryptanalysis)
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- Abraham Sinkov, Elementary Cryptanalysis, Math. Assoc. of Amer., 1966
- (pre-WW-II cryptanalysis; more mathematical than Gaines)
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- D Denning, Cryptography and Data Security, Addison-Wesley, 1983
- (mostly modern systems; more cryptography than
- cryptanalysis; protocols; ...)
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- Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma, Burnett Books Ltd., 1983
- (biography of Turing; some coverage of his crypto work
- in WW-II)
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- The entire list of publications from the Aegean Park Press
- P.O. Box 2837, Laguna Hills, CA 92654-0837
- (mostly pre-WW-II reprints; very expensive; good sources)
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- Various volumes from Artech House, 610 Washington St., Dedham MA
- 02026; including:
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- Deavours & Hruh, Machine Cryptography and Modern Cryptanalysis
- (operation and breaking of cipher machines through
- about 1955).
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- Deavours, et al., CRYPTOLOGY Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
- (Cryptologia reprints -- 1st volume)
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- Deavours, et al., CRYPTOLOGY: Machines, History & Methods
- (Cryptologia reprints -- 2nd volume)
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- Cryptologia: a cryptology journal, quarterly since Jan 1977.
- Cryptologia
- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
- Terre Haute Indiana 47803
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- Journal of the International Association for Cryptologic Research
- (quarterly since 1988).
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- The RSA paper: The Comm. of the ACM, Feb 1978, p. 120
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- Claude Shannon's 2 1940's papers in the Bell System Tech Journal.
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- Herbert O. Yardley, The American Black Chamber, Bobbs-Merrill, 1931
- (1st hand history -- WW-I era)
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- Edwin Layton, "And I Was There", William Morrow & Co., 1985
- (1st hand history -- WW-II era)
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- W. Kozaczuk, Enigma, University Publications of America, 1984
- (1st hand history (Rejewski's) -- WW-II era)
-