Newly Added Books Section:
These are the books I most recently added when these pages were last generated. This list *doesn't* include books I've updated (new descriptions, links, image, prereqs, etc.), or books I had previously listed but for which I've recently added a review.
(If it’s here, I have it. If it’s reviewed, I have, at a minimum, read all of the crypto-relevant parts.)
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Noteworthy presentations involving noteworthy people include:
* Lessons Learned in Implementing and Deploying Crypto Software -- Peter Gutmann
* Making Mix Nets Robust for Electronic Voting by Randomized Partial Checking -- Ronald L. Rivest
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In the mid 1600's, John Wilkins (an English bishop and science fiction writer) crafted a way of writing Latin that organized all of language into a giant mostly hierarchical taxonomy (not too unlike those useless ivory tower folks of today who want to craft an ontology that encompasses absolutely everything in the world in hopes of magically enabling automated reasoning). This system, called Real Character, assigns one symbol per word. How one navigates the taxonomy to reach the desired word influences how the symbol for that word is drawn.
This system of writing was recently employed by techy fiction author Neal Stephenson, who used the code on an animated intro screen as a crack-the-code-type publicity contest for his "Quicksilver" book.
I'm not sure how to rate this book. It seems somewhat pointless, but it was a lot of effort. I guess I'll give it a thumbs up.
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As "Cryptography Decrypted" is a great "from the ground up" tutorial in cryptography for the non-technical, so "Cryptography Demystified" is for those with a computer science or math degree. The author crafts notions of cryptographic security, then leads you down less-than traditional, but highly illuminating paths to get there. This book is very unconventional and refreshing original – certainly not another rehash of introductory cryptography topics. You’ll find yourself carefully reading every page. While a math background in statistics, calculus, linear algebra, and automata theory is not required to absorb this book cover to cover, it does help you complete the exercises. 58 pages contain the detailed solutions to the chapter questions. Go get this book.
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Cryptomenytics and Cryptography of Gustavus Selenus in Nine Books, The
Selenus, Gustavus / Walden, John William Henry (Translator). 1624 (Currently out of print).
Categories: Newly Added Books, Pen and Paper, Steganography |
The online translation (along with the original Latin) is fascinating read. This work is from a time when well guarded formalized insights into cryptography and steganography were still considered by many to be powerful mystic arts. It is an illustrated blending of cryptography, steganography, and poetry. Frequent reference to the steganography of Johannes Trithemius is made throughout the text. Would that all cryptography books began with the following: "Let no one read unwilling, for such I’ve written not; For him my page is written, to whom it gives delight."
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Noteworthy presentations involving noteworthy people include:
* The Design of a Cryptographic Security Architecture -- Peter Gutmann
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This books seems to be held as everyone’s example of the quintessential lipogram -- not once in its 50,110 words does it contain the letter "e". This book is often collected by cryptographers because of its intentional deviation from normal letter frequencies. Other Lipogrammatic works (according to this page) that I won’t bother tracking down include "La Disparition" (Georges Perec, 1969), "Odyessey" (Tryphiodorus), and various novels by Lope De Vega Carpio (1562-1635).
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How to Write Codes and Send Secret Messages
Peterson, John Lawrence. 1966, 12th Printing edition. 64 pages.
Categories: Kids, Newly Added Books |
This book was my introduction to secret codes as a child. Contains crafts for kids centered around codes and secret inks. Comes with a red square of transparency that "decrypts" the superimposed red and blue letters found throughout the book.
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Noteworthy presentations involving noteworthy people include:
* Authenticated-Encryption with Associated-Data -- Phillip Rogaway
* Tarzan: A Peer-to-Peer Anonymizing Network Layer -- Robert Morris (of the 1988 "Morris Worm" fame)
* Almost Entirely Correct Mixing with Applications to Voting -- Dan Boneh
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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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