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[martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com]

Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Forgot to add the reading list, sorry.

If you want to know more about this kind of stuff, a good
background is Simon Singh's "The Code Book":
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1857028899/martin043
which has background on everything from simple Caesar ciphers,
through the Enigma machine, to RSA and PGP.

Doesn't quite go up to quantum cryptography, which is mentioned
in passing in John Gribben's Shrodinger's Kittens:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1857994027/martin043
which is a great read on quantum theories accessible to non-
mathematicians like me.

Cheers
Martin

<tip type="online cryptography">
Want to encrypt stuff with a sense of history, and without stealing
lumps of hardware? There's an Enigma machine emulator which
you can download:
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~andlaw/engindex.htm
</tip>


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