Information... We need Information...
Bill Frantz
frantz at netcom.com
Thu Feb 29 14:05:10 PST 1996
At 10:32 AM 2/29/96 -0800, Alan Olsen wrote:
>Here is the problem... I am looking for texts on the breaking
>of cyphers. (I want to show him WHY the cypher is insecure and
>not just say "<scottish accent>It's crap!</Scottish accent>".)
>I have done a couple of searches and have come up fairly dry.
Some of Friedman's instruction manuals from the (pre?)WW2 days have been
declassified. When I was down at Computer Literacy Bookshops
(408/435-1118) in San Jose, they had 5 or 6 titles on codebreaking.
Applied Cryptography talks about some more modern attacks, such as meet in
the middle. Starting from the references and going to a good technical
library might produce some information.
Good Luck - Bill
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