I don't know if you saw this program, but this is what Scientific American had to say about it: Only in the past half a dozen years have the American people...
This is taken from Scientific American. Could this have been a version of the Playfair cipher? MATHEMATICS A Cipher from Poe Solved at Last Source: Bokler...
The common telephone book can be a valuable resource in cryptology. Consisting of numbers and words, the telephone book can provide a basis for not only...
Hello everyone... I just want to say, that this looks like a really great club and is going places... I am a novice and just starting out learning encryptian,...
Amateur divers in Denmark have found an enigma machine. Don't know where exactly. Sometime earlier other divers brought three rotors to the surface, but not...
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Apr 9, 2002 8:40 pm
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http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/ --> home of the Enigma Machine The equipments displayed in the cases are all versions of the German Enigma, as famous for its...
Yes, I use PGP myself and intend to talk more about it when I explain the third level of PCS (Personal Cipher System), which is what I write about once in a...
Thanks for the sites. Yes, the British, Poles and Americans are all fighting over who came up with the solution. It may have been all or them, or none of...
You are right about the new trend being quantum ciphers. The Los Alamos lab has a very good site on quantum ciphers. Some of these new ciphers are virtually...
The autokey-type cipher is extremely attractive. It uses the text of the message itself to provide the enciphering key. Since the text of each message will...
It would still fall to the same attack against autokey virgenee. Take the ciphertext and slide it against itself for the first 100 characters and measure the...
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Apr 15, 2002 12:26 am
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I agree with you. That is why I am a firm believer that any pencil and paper cipher used today has to be a combination of two or three ciphers used with...
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This is a little bit off topic and I hope I don't get my hands slapped, but I have just loaded a pdf document on mapping terrorist cells. It does make...
There are several ways to improve on the autokey cipher to make it more secure. Obviously, the first method would be to arbitrarily assign numerical values to...
There is one problem, which was pointed out earlier by Clay, that problem is the autokey will fall to frequency analysis. So, special efforts should be...
NEW YORK (AP) — Phil Zimmermann knows a thing or two about adversity. His invention for encrypting e-mail, Pretty Good Privacy, was so good that the...
It might be a good idea if we download the various versions of PGP and save them on cd in case they are withdrawn from the Internet in the future....
D.Hinton
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Apr 23, 2002 8:23 am
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This is an excellent idea. I have the URL of the "worldwide" PGP site that I will post here later today. Do you know of one that is more complete. I know the...
The site that has, I believe, the most complete archive of PGP is: http://crypto.radiusnet.net/archive/pgp/ Another is: ftp://ftp.zedz.net/pub/crypto/pgp There...
D.Hinton
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Apr 23, 2002 12:10 pm
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http://www.pgpi.com has all the latest PGP (and GnuPG) programs. There's really no big deal. If NAI stops production on PGP, the only reason to stop using...
I am sure you are right, Clay. But what the heck. I've got nothing better to do and a lot of CDs laying around... I do expect that NAI will generate some...
Sorry to report that I went to the NAI site and attempted to locate the freeware download without success. They probably eliminated it when they abandoned...
D.Hinton
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Apr 25, 2002 3:47 pm
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... It's not on the NAI site. http://www.pgpi.com That's where it's allways been. They used to have a domestic version on their website, but the version that...
Hi, Managed to pick up several of the PGP and Gnupg versions. I'll pick up a few more. This is really an off topic kind of question. So, after I ask it, I ...
By far the best collection of Crytography & Steganography tools, tutorials, sourcecodes, for windows and unix, I have found on the net so far. Not much that is...
