These documents were written by students in the cryptography class
about topics related to those discussed in class.
- Kryptos and the
Cyrillic Projector - by Irina Dubova
- Musical Encryption,
hear it played
- by Shant Mahserejian
- Navajo
Code Talkers - by Brenna Fong and Michael May
- Linear B -
by Elizabeth Smit
- Frequency Analysis of Course Blog and Declaration
of Independence - Jeremy Greene
- How Shor Quashed a
Revolution - by J. Vahid
- Navajo
Code Talkers - by Roberto Sandoval
- A Poem - by
Steven Fies
- Kryptos -
by Karl Wang
- Cryptography
and the Computer Virus - by Simone McCloskey
- The
Math Department has more entropy than the Physics and Computer
Engineering Departments - by Caleb Crawford (Spring 2005)
- Letter
Frequencies in Old, Middle, and Modern English - by Marsha Moreno
(Spring 2005)
- I speculated in class that the reason the distribution of letters
is so irregular is due to the understandable prevalence of words like
"to", "and", and "the", which have grammatical function but do not
themselves carry meaning. A couple of students took up the challenge: Feliks Dushatsky,
Jeremy Pollock, Will
Garner (Spring 2005)
- Purple
Revealed - by Will Garner (Spring 2005)
- ----------------------------------Older Projects
- Quantum
Cryptography
- by Toni Smith (Spring 2004)
- The
KGB
- by Anthony Zanontian (Spring 2004)
- The
Lives of the Cambridge Spies and the Project Known as Venona
- by Kyle Cai (Spring 2004)
- Cryptography
in Home Entertainment
- by Mark Barry (Spring 2004)
- Lock
Picking in Powerpoint
- by Michael Lee (Spring 2004). Also available in PDF,
Flash,
and OpenOffice.org
formats.
- Mary,
Queen of Scots
- by Stephaney Smith (Spring 2004)
- Principles
of Steganography
- by Max Weiss (Spring 2004)
- Wireless
Network Security
- by David Chang (Spring 2004)
- The
Zodiac Ciphers
- by Lana Kennedy (Spring 2004)
- Knapsack
Cryptosystems and the LLL algorithm
- by Jennifer Bakker (Spring 2004)
- ----------------------------------Older Projects
- Enigma-
German Machine Cipher - "Broken" by Polish Cryptologists
- by B. D. Brown (date unknown)
- Internet
Security Page
- by Robert Wallace (date unknown)
- Installing
PGP
- by Tamar Shavit (date unknown)