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Cryptanalysis: A Study of Ciphers and their Solution
Gaines, Helen Fouche. 1939. 237 pages.
Categories: Cryptanalysis, Pen and Paper |
While very detailed and history packed, this book is kinda dull, and not fun to work through. Not as interesting
as "Cryptanalysis for Microcomputers" (also reviewed here). As with most cryptanalysis
books, it deals with exclusivly pre-computer ciphers.
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Cryptanalysis for Microcomputers
Foster, Caxton C. 1982 (Currently out of print). 333 pages.
Categories: Cryptanalysis, Programming |
It's a shame this book is out of print, because it's packed with cryptanalysis source
code. Code examples help to break Playfair, polyalphabetic codes, and many other traditional
ciphers. Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on who you are), all the examples are in basic.
A great starting point for those just beginning to write software to perform cryptanalysis.
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Cryptology: Machines, History and Methods
Deavours, Cipher A. (Editor) / Kahn, David (Editor) / Kruh, Louis (Editor) / Mellen, Greg (Editor) / Winkel, Brian J. (Editor). 1989 (Currently out of print). 520 pages.
Categories: Biographical, Cryptanalysis, History |
The 2nd volume of selected papers from the CRYPTOLOGIA journal (see also the "Cryptology: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow" and "Selections from Cryptologia: History, People, and Technology").
All three volumes are unsurpassed in their highly illustrated analysis of historically significant cryptography machines. (This is, however, is probably the weakest of the three volumes.) The many topics in this volume include:
* Biographical information on cryptographically important individuals including Marian Rejenski, Georges-Jean Painvain, and Duke August.
* Articles on automated analysis of substitution ciphers.
* Pictorial discussion on the proper use of an Enigma.
* The St. Paul's Churchyard tombstone ciphers.
* Ongoing analysis of the Beale Ciphers (probably a hoax).
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Cryptology: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Deavours, Cipher A. (Editor) / Kahn, David (Editor) / Kruh, Louis (Editor) / Mellen, Greg (Editor) / Winkel, Brian J. (Editor). 1987 (Currently out of print). 519 pages.
Categories: Biographical, Cryptanalysis, History |
The 1st volume of selected papers from the CRYPTOLOGIA journal (see also "Cryptology: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow" and "Selections from Cryptologia: History, People, and Technology").
All three volumes are unsurpassed in their highly illustrated analysis of historically significant cryptography machines. The many topics in this volume include:
* Biographical information on cryptographically important individuals including William Friedman and Franke Rowlett.
* Excellent commentary on Yardley’s "The American Black Chamber" book.
* A couple of articles on unicity, with unicity points computed for many different ciphers.
* A few big names submitting articles, such as Rivest, and another by Robert Morris, a giant in cryptography (though you’re probably more familiar with his son Robert Morris Jr. and his internet worm of '88).
* A couple of articles on the automated analysis of cryptograms.
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The man that has written over 20 bizzare books has come out with another. Cryptorunes
is a collection of cryptogram puzzles, done in weird eye-candy ways you'd expect from Pickover. Interesting
symbol fonts and fun quotes make this a recommended crypto puzzle book.
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Poe introduced the public to letter frequency cryptanalysis when the short story "The Gold-Bug" was
first published in 1843. It's got secret ink, cryptography, buried treasure -- all the good
stuff. You can download the story for free.
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Information Hiding: Steganography and Watermarking - Attacks and Countermeasures (Advances in Information Security, Volume 1)
Johnson, Neil F. / Duric, Zoran / Jajodia, Sushil G. 2001. 160 pages.
Categories: Cryptanalysis, Mathematics, Steganography |
Gets a thumbs up even though it is expensive for size (137 pages), and its choice of stego tools were out of date even when the book was published. However, it redeems itself with its gentle introduction to stego and its analysis of signatures left by particular stego tools (steganalysis). Very few books deal with steganalysis, and information on this topic has been traditionally hard to find (no thanks to Fravia hiding all the juicy details).
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Security In Computing
Pfleeger, Charles P. / Pfleeger, Shari Lawrence. 1997, 2nd edition. 569 pages.
Note: I have not read the newer 3rd edition (release date December 2002).
Categories: Cryptanalysis, Reference |
An Ivory Tower approach to computer security. Chapters 2 through 4 are provide a
very good (but fast paced) treatment on cryptography and cryptanalysis. The remaining
chapters deal with secure systems (Orange book mentality), database security (such
as preventing the inference of sensitive data from non-sensitive data, a la
Denning), and network security. The security section has a traditional academic
flavor to it -- nothing like the "Hacking Exposed" book.
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Selections from Cryptologia: History, People, and Technology
Deavours, Cipher A. (Editor) / Kahn, David (Editor) / Kruh, Louis (Editor) / Mellen, Greg (Editor) / Winkel, Brian J. (Editor). 1998. 552 pages.
Categories: Biographical, Cryptanalysis, History |
The 3rd volume of selected papers from the CRYPTOLOGIA journal (see also the "Cryptology: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow" and "Cryptology: Machines, History and Methods").
All three volumes are unsurpassed in their highly illustrated analysis of historically significant cryptography machines. The many topics in this volume include:
* Biographical information on cryptographically important individuals including Agnes Meyer Driscoll (broke the Japanese "Blue Book" code) and Prescott Currier.
* 14th century Arab contributions to letter frequency cryptanalysis.
* 19th century cryptography used by the Vatican.
* The cryptography of the author Lewis Carroll (the pen name for Charles Dodgson).
* Lots of photos of classic Russian crypto devises.
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Apparently, Yardley didn't actually write this book, but instead, it was ghost written by an engineer working at AT&T (see "Cryptology: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow" for more information). The book is mostly a collection of cryptograms. Copies are hard to come by, and fair to good condition copies of this book run anywhere from $150 to $400.
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Haven't finished reading this book yet.
Even so, it appears that despite the title (an emphasis on "Cryptanalysis"), it seems to only contains 22 pages on how one might actually attack cryptosystems.
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Military Cryptanalysis Part I: With New Added Problems For The Student
Friedman, William F. 1935. 149 pages.
Categories: Cryptanalysis, Pen and Paper |
Haven't finished reading this book yet.
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Military Cryptanalysis Part II: With Added PROBLEMS and COMPUTER PROGRAMS
Friedman, William F. 1937. 158 pages.
Categories: Cryptanalysis, Pen and Paper |
Haven't finished reading this book yet.
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Military Cryptanalysis Part III: Simpler Varieties of Aperiodic Substitution Systems
Friedman, William F. 1939. 119 pages.
Categories: Cryptanalysis, Pen and Paper |
Haven't finished reading this book yet.
Declassified 1992.
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Military Cryptanalysis Part IV: Transposition and Fractionating Systems
Friedman, William F. 1941. 189 pages.
Categories: Cryptanalysis, Pen and Paper |
Haven't finished reading this book yet.
Declassified 1992.
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Haven't finished reading this book yet.
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