Books, movies, tv, music

[Harry]

A place to discuss all those amazing books, movies, music and video that furnish your mind. We all have our own taste, but it is great to discover something new so why not share your favourites with us.

[Madness]

FREE BOOKS! (and legal, too)

American Cryptogram Association, “The ACA and You”
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.cryptogram.org/cdb/aca.info/aca.and.you/aca.and.you.pdf

Étienne Bazeries, Les Ciffres Secrets Dévoilés
http://books.googleusercontent.com/books/content?req=AKW5Qaee9c8FhMoLlDIznFIe_AlHlbaR3JpuOdXQtqZpxiRYFVL2f13tRdY_nzPy3LRCfxL_AD1MWC9t6SxmYMEy28YgRJQKfQBpXmljiRXbOgLRoQV0z8aVR-vBIUVokVIjfPsFQqXL_doIm3S20gaYjjubxQNFhcrxQrNHgJKDeEMIpM7jFYq7xw7Z9T7vjdFWhiiSBuEx4s6t4PZ1GTP9KAxuOx5VOJiKpno6oCEvFKyg4f506iJ-BHYFU8R6WV2_PI8sW6N17fvq-uMss_x9qPKZT2cZCg

Félix-Marie Delastelle, Traité Élémentaire de Cryptographie
https://archive.org/details/8VSUP3207b

William F. Friedman, “Codes and Ciphers (Cryptology),” Encyclopaedia Britannica
http://www.nsa.gov/Portals/70/documents/news-features/declassified-documents/friedman-documents/reports-research/FOLDER_535/41772109081119.pdf

William F. Friedman, Elements of Cryptanalysis

Elements of Cryptanalysis

Helen Fouché Gaines, Cryptanalysis: a study of ciphers and their solution [digital loan only]
http://archive.org/details/cryptanalysis00gain

Parker Hitt, Manual for the Solution of Military Ciphers

Manual for the Solution of Military Ciphers

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48871

Friedrich Kasiski, Die Geheimschriften und die Dechiffrir-Kunst
http://digital.onb.ac.at/OnbViewer/viewer.faces?doc=ABO_+Z224431001

Auguste Kerckhoffs, “La cryptographie militaire”
http://www.petitcolas.net/kerckhoffs/crypto_militaire_1_b.pdf
http://www.petitcolas.net/kerckhoffs/crypto_militaire_2.pdf

Émile Victor Théodore Myszkowski, Cryptographie Indéchiffrable basée sur de nouvelles combinaisons rationnelles
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1265620p/

della Porta, De Furtivis Literarum Notis
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/gri.ark:/13960/t37142x6g

della Porta, De Occultis Literarum Notis
http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/pdf/noh4260.o11b2715108.pdf

Fletcher Pratt, Secret and Urgent
http://147.83.93.163/cops/fetch.php?data=4538&type=pdf&id=2942

Johannes Trithemius, Polygraphiae libri sex
http://www.loc.gov/item/32017914/

Blaise de Vigenère, Traicté des chiffres ou secrètes manières d’escrire
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1040608n/
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k94009991/

Herbert O. Yardley, The American Black Chamber
http://www.marshallfoundation.org/library/the-american-black-c20796/
http://www.marshallfoundation.org/library/american-black-chamber-annotated-digital/

Basic Cryptography, Dept. of the Army Technical Manual 32-220
https://www.nsa.gov/Portals/70/documents/news-features/declassified-documents/friedman-documents/publications/FOLDER_238/41748889078809.pdf

United States Army, Field Manual 34-40-2, Basic Cryptanalysis
http://www.umich.edu/~umich/fm-34-40-2/

More here:
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/browse?type=lcsubc&key=Cryptography&c=x

[Harry]

Thanks Madness, I think we should look to move this fantastic list into the library with these links. Too busy today, but will take a look later. Looks like you are wearing the guest librarian hat for now!
Harry

[Doctor-sherlock-torchwood]

This is less cipher challenge specific and more just general tv news that you might be interested in:

14 years ago today (22nd October 2006) Torchwood aired for the first time. It’s a really good show (Doctor Who spin off but a lot more adult so probably don’t watch if you’re under 15 (some episodes are more appropriate than others so you might want to check IMDB parent’s guide if you’re unsue or you can reply to this message if you want me to give you a detailed summary)).

It’s a great show and the first episode went out at 9 o clock so I’m going to watch them all as they would have come out 14 years ago, starting with ‘Everything Changes’ at 9pm tonight. You can get it on BBC iPlayer and probably other places too but iPlayer’s easiest if you’re in the UK. There’s a bit of code breaking in it (but not very much so don’t watch it solely for code breaking content or you’ll be very disappointed) but it’s abou sci-fi and aliens and Cipher Challenge people seem like the kind of people who are into sci-fi and aliens.

If you do like it, we could maybe start a forum on this (Harry permitting) for the weekly watch alongs or just reply to this message and start a thread for discussions.

The 21st centruy is when everything changes, and you’ve got to be ready.

[The-letter-wriggler]

I recorded (for my own enjoyment of course) some special BBC radio Tourchwood dramas about CERN and the big bang some years back and had forgotten, now you’ve mentioned it I want to dig them out and give them a listen.
By the way folk Torchwood is an anagram of Doctor Who.

[Doctor-sherlock-torchwood]

I have them in a collection called ‘Torchwood: The Collected Radio Dramas’. The CERN one (called Lost Souls) has Martha Jones in it which is good. I love a bit of crossover and Martha’s Torchwood episodes were great. Have you listened to any of the Big Finish audio dramas? They’re quite expensive but some of them are really good.

[The-letter-wriggler]

@Doctor-sherlock-torchwood, I am unaware of the Big Finish dramas, care to enlighten me, are they Torchwood related?

[Doctor-sherlock-torchwood]

@The-letter-wriggler Big Finish make audio dramas for Doctor Who and Torchwood and spin offs with River Song, Captain Jack and others. They have the real actors from the shows which is good and the stories are usually very well written. Torchwood have a Monthly Range which I usually listen to. They cost £7.99 for a download and they are usually an hour long. They are all self contained stories and some of them are quite inventive (Ianto and Rhys having a barbecue, Owen and Andy teaming up for a case (there’s been three stories with Owen and Andy now and they’re my favourites), Gwen and Martha doing an autopsy on a body, etc. There’s also been a range where they made their own Series 5 and Series 6 with John Barrowman and Eve Myles to continue on where the tv show left off but I can’t speak for that one as I’ve not listened to it yet (still can’t get over Children of Earth Day 4). There’s also a Torchwood One range with Tracy-Ann Oberman and Gareth David-Lloyd which I’ve not listened to yet either (I want to but it costs £20 per box set so I’m saving up) and they occasionally do special releases which seem really good but again, I’ve not listened to them yet as they are quite expensive. I would highly recommend the Torchwood monthly range for a taster of what Big Finish is like and I can recommend some episodes depending on who your favourite characters are or what kind of story you want (happy, scary, sad etc.) if you want. Feel free to decline though, I won’t be offended or anything.

Sorry for the very long message but Torchwood is one of my favourite shows and I like to be thorough. (Also, sorry Harry, you’re probably fed up with me hijacking this forum for non Cipher Challenge content)

[Madness]

Addition to above list: Encyclopedia article from 1807 by William Blair. David Kahn says it was the best summary of
cryptology before Parker Hitt’s book.

William Blair, “Cipher,” The Cyclopædia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature, edited by Abraham Rees, volume VIII, 1807, http://www.jdege.us/crypto/blair-cipher.pdf, archive.org/details/cyclopaediaoruni08rees/page/177, babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101078163340&seq=603

[Diamondcoder]

Going to join in with Doctor-sherlock-torchwood here and recommend another couple of un-cipher related things (Disclaimer – most of these will be YouTube channels because I am obsessed):

– ‘Tom Scott’ is a great YouTuber for everything from Zero Gravity machines to Emoji keyboards. If you’re interested in starting coding (as in JavaScript or others) he has a great series called ‘The Basics’ about that kind of stuff.
– For Science related stuff, ‘ASAP Science’ provides a fun and easy way of learning for younger viewers, and ‘Doctor Mike’ does a lot of false media and reacting to medical sitcoms and whatnot.
– I know many of you may have already seen in, but the BBC’s ‘Sherlock’ is some of the best TV I have ever seen. The new movie ‘Enola Holmes’ may also interest former Sherlockians (apparently that’s what they’re called).
– Maths has to be left, in my opinion, to Matt Parker, who has a YouTube channel called ‘Stand Up Maths’ and has written two books. The first is ‘Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension’, and the most recent is ‘Humble Pi’ which is all about real-world maths mistakes. He also currently has a bi-weekly challenge going on at the moment, for those of you wanting a side challenge, on his second channel.
– This one is also pretty well known, but (yes, another YouTube channel) ‘TED-ED’ is great for riddles and overall knowledge, as well as some history on specific, little-known people who have influenced our world.
– ‘Horrible Histories’ is something I still watch even though I have far outgrown it. If you haven’t heard of this TV show, you NEED to watch it.

That’s probably enough for now. Will comment more if I remember any.

[Madness]

There is a list of books on this page, mostly about using computers with cryptography:
http://www.etoan.com/aca.html

[Madness]

Another free and legal book: The Gold=Bug by Poe. In it, he solves a symbolic substitution cipher. If you are new
to cipherizing, then it is a good example to study. If you are old to the art, then here is the ciphertext, and have at it.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Tales_(Poe)/The_Gold-Bug

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[Madness]

For an excellent an historically accurate depiction of the Hitler Jugen, I recommend the documentary JoJo Rabbit.
The focus is not on spying, but rather on preparing jugen to participate in the war on the continent. Very informative.

[Madness]

Twentieth-Century Schizoid Man Standard Puzzle Book:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63884

[Jian]

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