Date: Sun, 6 Dec 92 07:47 EST
>From: "Michael E. Marotta" <MERCURY@LCC.EDU>
Subject: File 9--Bibliography on codes and ciphers
 
  number 006            CLACKER'S DIGEST           December 6, 1992.
          philosophy and applications for analytical engines
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         A Cryptography Bibliography by mercury@well.sf.ca.us
 
(Technically, cryptography is MAKING codes while cryptanalysis is
BREAKING them.  Both are subsumed under cryptology.  A CIPHER is a
regular transposition such as A=Z, B=Y, etc., while a CODE is a table
of arbitrary symbols.)
 
Kahn, David, THE CODEBREAKERS, MacMillan, 1967.  The MOST complete
   history with specific examples.  Written before public keys, RSA,
   etc., but still THE place to start.
 
Marotta, Michael, THE CODE BOOK, Loompanics, 1987, Overview of history
   and post-1967 developments.
 
Sinkov, Abraham, ELEMENTARY CRYPTANALYSIS: A MATHEMATICAL APPROACH,
   Random House, 1968.  Sinkov worked for Friedman on the breaking of
   Purple.  First rate.
 
Gaines, Helen Fouche, CRYPTANALYSIS, Dover, 1956. A classic work.  The
   first step to breaking codes and ciphers.
 
Lysing, Henry, SECRET WRITING, Dover, 1974.  Another reprint of
   another classic.
 
Smith, Laurence Dwight, CRYPTOGRAPHY, Dover, 1955.  Ditto.
 
Konheim, Alan G., CRYPTOGRAPHY: A PRIMER, John Wiley, 1981.  Textbook
   for mathematicians from IBM's Watson Center. Includes public keys,
   digital signatures.
 
Meyer, Carl H., and Matyas Stephen M., CRYPTOGRAPHY, John Wiley, 1982.
   From IBM Cryptography Competency Center.  For computers, includes
   public keys, digital signatures.
 
Weber, Ralph E., UNITED STATES DIPLOMATIC CODES AND CIPHERS 1775-1938,
   Precedent, 1979.  Not just a history!  The appendix contains the
   all the keys!!
 
Chadwick, THE DECIPHERMENT OF LINEAR B, Vintage, 1958. Worked with
   Michael Ventris on unraveling Minoan script.
 
Yardley, Herbert O., THE AMERICAN BLACK CHAMBER, Ballantine 1981,
   Random House, 1931.  Yardley broke German ciphers in WWI and then
   Japanese ciphers of 1920, and was fired in 1931 because "Gentlemen
   don't read each other's mail."
 
(anonymous), THE DATA ENCRYPTION STANDARD,  National Bureau of
   Standards, January 1977, NTIS NBS-FIPS PUB 46.
 
(anonymous), DATA SECURITY AND THE DATA ENCRYPTION STANDARD,
 
National Bureau of Standards, 1978, Pub 500-27; CODEN: XNBSAV.
 
Rivest, Ronald L., Shamir, A., and Adleman, L., "A Method for
   Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public-key Cryptosystems,"
   COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM, February, 1979.  The last word.
 
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