IP: HISTORY & CRYPTOGRAPHY

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

Date: Fri, 19 Jun 98 14:40:03 PDT
From: "Willis H. Ware" <willis@rand.org>


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Because of a chance mailing on a crypto mailing list [UKCRYPTO] that I
follow, I rounded up several history and crypto web-sites that might
interest you.


    1. http://www.gb50mki.org/


To celebrate the 50th of the Manchester Mark 1.  The site is full of
events, pointers to other historical URLs including a simulator of the Baby
Mark 1 (which corresponded to our Johnniac Junior).  A fascinating site to
prowl. RAND and Johnniac are not mentioned, but the von Neumann work at
Princeton is and so is the Williams-Killburn electrostatic store.  Includes
a brief history up through the early 50s.


    I must say that the Brits are going all out to make the most of their
early computer work; it's impressive.  No such action from the ACM or
IEEE/CS or FOCUS.


    2. http://BletchleyPark@Cranfield.ac.uk


Bletchley Park was the site of the Enigma work during WW-1, where the Bombe
and the Collosus were built and operated.


    3. http://www.attlabs.att.co.uk/andyc/enigma/enigma_j.html


A graphical-interfaced simulator of the Enigma machine.  Very nicely done
in Java.


    4. http://www.und.nodak.edu/org/crypto/crypto/


Home site of the American Cryptogram Association.  Also contains several
simulators of various things.


    5. ftp://ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/


The Oxford University [UK] crypto archive.  Lots of stuff of all kinds
including contemporary crypto implementations of current algorithms.


    6. http://members.aol.com/nbrass/enigma.htm


The Nautical Brass magazine site; some stuff about Enigma including a
simulator.


Bibliography at:


       http://members.aol.com/nbrass/biblio.htm


    7. ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/pub/virus/crypt/enigma/simulators


The University of Hamburg [Germany] crypto archive with all sorts of things,
including simulators.


Many of these sites have links to one another, so it's handy to navigate
around.