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Crytography Links
The following links were shown during Stuart Reges's cryptography talk:
confederate cipher disk
, available for purchase through nonprofit associated with the US National Parks
enigma machine for sale on ebay
(link likely to expire soon)
NSA education links
(see especially learning units)
NSA CryptoKids
, "fun" site (perhaps a bit scary), interesting list of high school and college programs
Java BigInteger class
: check out isProbablePrime, nextProbablePrime, modPow
Wikipedia is a great source of information about cryptography:
history of cryptography
scytale
: Spartan encryption device
Caesar cipher
: simple basis of early cryptography
Vigenère cipher
, a polyalphabetic cipher
German Enigma Machine
RSA encryption
PGP
: Pretty Good Privacy
Shor's Algorithm
, which would break RSA using a quantum computer
quantum computing
RSA factoring challenge
Stuart Reges
Last modified: Thu Jul 19 21:04:54 PDT 2007