As part of the cryptography course, each student writes a paper and makes a short presentation to the class. The subjects this year were
Privacy in the 21st Century. See ILETS and the ENFOPOL 98 Affair.
The VIC cipher, used by Soviet spies in the 1950s, discovered in a hollow nickel.
Hash functions, useful for electronic signatures.
Navajo Code Talkers who used their own language in radio communications during World War II.
The Voynich Manuscript, a yet-to-be-deciphered European document.
Mistakes made by the German armed forces which allowed the allies to break the Enigma cipher. See Turing.
The International Data Encryption Algorithm.
The Solitaire Encryption Algorithm as described in the novel Cryptonomicon.
Kerberos, a network authentication protocol.
The Colossus, a computer used in the decryption work at Bletchley Park, now being rebuilt.
Pretty Good Privacy, a personal encryption algorithm.