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How We Cracked the Code Book Ciphers (2000) [pdf]
- auton1 8y agoLoved this book. Didn't realize the codes had been cracked. Thanks for sharing!
- willvarfar 8y agoThat was an excellent book! I got the book and couldn't put it down. Luckily when I got to the contest at the back I found myself with a couple of weeks of summer holidays with Pascal and my 286 and no internet connection. I cracked the manual ciphers with computer programs. I started on the Engima cipher, but did not create an accurate Enigma machine (the drawings in the book were incomplete and I didn't know that and had no internet access). A couple of years ago I chanced upon the book again and set about solving the Enigma part. https://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/145830743193/my-attack-on-the-enigma-cipher-machine https://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/145830743193/my-... Fond memories! :D The book is warmly recommended.
- kemiller2002 8y agoI second! This book was excellent. Actually, I've read all his books but one, and they are all great.
- segfaultbuserr 8y agoApparently Stage 1 - 7 were classical ciphers, followed by brute-forcing the 56-bit DES, and factoring RSA-155 though distributed computing. > Compaq provided access to one of their benchmarking computers with four 667 MHz Alphas and 8 GB of primary memory. This was massive computational power for a workstation in 2000! It's always impressive to see the progress of Moore's Law, even although single-core performance has peaked long ago.