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jdege	Jul 5 2009, 02:27 PM
Elite member Posts: 263 Group: Admin Member #246 Joined: December 7, 2006	Books on cryptanalysis have been have been few, far between, and have rapidly fallen out of print. The classic text is "Cryptanalysis" by Helen Gaines. This was published back in the 30's, as the American Cryptogram Association's basic text. It's dense, covers a lot, and doesn't discuss some important techniques that weren't publicly known at the time. But it is still in print, and covers a range of ciphers that no other book does. There are two other books in print, Abraham Sinkov's "Elementary Cryptanalysis", and F.L. Bauer's "Decrypted Secrets". Both require some math, but if you've taken basic linear algebra you should have no trouble with them. (If you haven't taken linear algebra, you should put it on your list), Then there are the military manuals. William Friedman was arguably the greatest cryptanalyst of modern times. But what his job actually was was to create training programs and to write manuals for the US Army's cryptography sections. FM 34-40-2 is a basic intro to cryptanalysis that is largely based on excerpts from Friedman's texts, and is available online. The texts themselves, or those parts of them that are not still classified, are available from Aegean Park Press There are two in particular to look at. "Military Cryptanalysis" and "Military Cryptanalyics." The former is a four-volume text from the 1930's that covers pretty much everything. The latter are the first two volumes of what was intended to be a seven-volume revision of the former. But only the first four volumes were written, and only the first two volumes have been declassified.
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