[Noisebridge-discuss] 4/17 crypto night - historical crypto systems

Joey Hurst jhurstus at gmail.com
Sat Apr 11 22:38:53 UTC 2009


Thanks for the pointers and resources!  I'll check them out this week.

-Joey

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 4:41 AM, aestetix aestetix <aestetix at gmail.com>wrote:

> This sounds fantastic.
>
> Over the last few years, I had taken a specific interest in historical
> crypto systems, so I really like where you're going.
> I should do a little self-promotion here and refer you to some cryptography
> stuff I wrote about six years ago: http://aestetix.net/?page=crypto.
>
> If people are really interested in this, I recommend reading at least the
> first few chapters of *The Code Book* by Simon Singh.
>
> It might also be fun to cover things like Linear B, the Beale Cipher, the
> Voynich Manuscripts, Jefferson's Cipher wheel, Vigenere's work.... but I
> digress.
>
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Joey Hurst <jhurstus at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey Crypto Night folks,
>>
>> Nice to meet y'all today!  I have a feeling that these gatherings are
>> going to be a lot of fun once they get going . . .
>>
>> I will be presenting a little information on historical crypto systems
>> (i.e. pre 20th century) next Friday (4/17 6pm).  We'll probably spend just a
>> few minutes going over the different cyphers and then spend most of the time
>> trying to crack some real cryptexts, first by hand and then using some
>> python/ruby/whatever scripts to do some of the more difficult ones.
>>
>> If we have time I might also present two neat modular arithmetic proofs:
>>  * Turing's Bicycle (mentioned but mostly forgotten today ;)
>>  * Why it's impossible to perfectly tune a musical instrument
>>
>> If there's something else you'd rather cover, let me know.
>>
>> -Joey
>>
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