For a recent student conference, the authors developed a day-long design problem and competition suitable for engineering, mathematics, and science undergraduates. The competition ...
Joshua Holden, Richard Layton, Laurence D. Merkle,...
This article presents the original draft of the Zimmermann telegram from 1917 in facsimile. Its various annotations provide interesting insights, such as the idea to promise Califo...
In this paper, we describe Whirlpool, which is a block-cipher-based secure hash function. Whirlpool produces a hash code of 512 bits for an input message of maximum length less tha...
When attacking the German Enigma cipher machine during the 1930s, the Polish mathematician Marian Rejewski developed a catalog of disjoint cycles of permutations generated by Enigm...