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• A Cryptographic Compendium

  http://www.quadibloc.com/crypto/jscrypt.htm
  Discusses the types of cipher systems that have been used in the past. Page includes illustrations and tables. Written by John Savard.

• Andy's Enigmatic Web Page

  http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~andlaw/engindex.htm
  Download an Enigma emulator for Windows

• Cipher Machines and Cryptology

  http://users.telenet.be/d.rijmenants/
  Contains historical and technical information about crypto machines and cryptology, with links to free software simulations and tools provided. Links are also provided to related external websites.

• Cipher Mysteries

  http://www.ciphermysteries.com/
  News, views, research and reviews of historical ciphers in fiction and non-fiction.

• Crypto Museum

  http://www.ilord.com/
  Photos, manuals, and other information about the German Enigma, the M-209, and other old encryption machines.

• Cryptography Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples

  http://www.herongyang.com/Cryptography/
  This cryptography tutorial book is a collection of notes and sample codes written by the author while he was learning cryptography technologies himself. Topics include blowfish, certificate, cipher, decryption, DES, digest, encryption, keytool, MD5, OpenSSL, PEM, PKCS#8, PKCS#12, private key, public key, RSA, secret key, SHA1, SSL, X.509.

• Enigma Cipher Machine by Tony Sale

  http://www.codesandciphers.org.uk/enigma/
  Explains how the device enciphers letters, background history, components of the machine, and military adaptation by the Germans. Also, includes information about Turing and Polish mathematicians contribution in breaking the code.

• History of Cryptography and Secrecy Systems

  http://www.dsm.fordham.edu/~mathai/crypto.html
  A historical overview of early cryptographic techniques.

• USS Pampanito - ECM Mark II

  http://www.maritime.org/ecm2.htm
  What was the ECM Mk II and why was it important.

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