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The Science of Secrecy

Some Suggested Project Topics

1. Learn about a cipher which we will not be covering in class (refer to the syllabus). See, for example: http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/crypt.html
2. Learn about a particular event in history in which cryptography played an important role (again, one that we will not be covering class).
3. Write a program or programs to implement some of the ciphers are studying.
4. Do a biographical project on someone who made important contributions to cryptography (e.g. al Kindi, Turing, Babbage, Friedman etc.).
5. Do a project focusing on a work (or works) of fiction in which cryptography played a central role.  (e.g. works of Jules Verne and Edgar Allan Poe).
6. Miscellaneous other topics:
   1. Advanced Encryption Standard
   2. Methods for generating random numbers
   3. Methods for factoring large numbers
   4. Is there secure way to implement a digital currency (i.e. something that works like cash but is all electronic)?
   5. The Cipher Challenge (from The Code Book)
   6. The Decipherment of Linear B
   7. Deciphering Mayan Glyphs
   8. The Purple Machine
   9. The ADFGVX cipher
   10. The National Security Agency
   11. DES
   12. The Echelon System
   13. Pigpen Cipher
        

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