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From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 17:50:38 -0400
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 98 14:40:03 PDT From: "Willis H. Ware" <willis () rand org> -------- Folder: YES -------- Because of a chance mailing on a crypto mailing list [UKCRYPTO] that I follow, I rounded up several history and crypto web-sites that might interest you. 1. http://www.gb50mki.org/ To celebrate the 50th of the Manchester Mark 1. The site is full of events, pointers to other historical URLs including a simulator of the Baby Mark 1 (which corresponded to our Johnniac Junior). A fascinating site to prowl. RAND and Johnniac are not mentioned, but the von Neumann work at Princeton is and so is the Williams-Killburn electrostatic store. Includes a brief history up through the early 50s. I must say that the Brits are going all out to make the most of their early computer work; it's impressive. No such action from the ACM or IEEE/CS or FOCUS. 2. http://BletchleyPark () Cranfield ac uk Bletchley Park was the site of the Enigma work during WW-1, where the Bombe and the Collosus were built and operated. 3. http://www.attlabs.att.co.uk/andyc/enigma/enigma_j.html A graphical-interfaced simulator of the Enigma machine. Very nicely done in Java. 4. http://www.und.nodak.edu/org/crypto/crypto/ Home site of the American Cryptogram Association. Also contains several simulators of various things. 5. ftp://ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/ The Oxford University [UK] crypto archive. Lots of stuff of all kinds including contemporary crypto implementations of current algorithms. 6. http://members.aol.com/nbrass/enigma.htm The Nautical Brass magazine site; some stuff about Enigma including a simulator. Bibliography at: http://members.aol.com/nbrass/biblio.htm 7. ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/pub/virus/crypt/enigma/simulators The University of Hamburg [Germany] crypto archive with all sorts of things, including simulators. Many of these sites have links to one another, so it's handy to navigate around.
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