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    Street Cryptography
    Street Cryptography
    Street Cryptography
    Ebook78 pages28 minutes

    Street Cryptography

    By Christopher Forrest

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    So, you have a conspiracy going and need to pass messages along without worrying that someone will intercept them. Congratulations, you've stumbled across the right book. Whether your personal solution is a Vigenere, a Vic, or a One Time Pad, you'll find an easy guide on creating your own encryption scheme right here. No need for a computer, except for the device you're reading this on. This can all be done in your favorite notebook, with a PENCIL!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChristopher Forrest
    Release dateJul 7, 2012
    ISBN9781476205809
    Street Cryptography
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    Christopher Forrest

    Christpher Forrest lives in New York City with his wife and six children. He was a one-time student of mathematics. He has worked every menial job you could imagine, including security, before becoming an EMT. After, he earned his Commercial Driver's License and worked as a trucker. He is a hobbyist cryptologist, redditor, slacker(Slackware Linux) and contributes to SlackBuilds.org(a site for 3rd party Slackware packages.) Occasionally, he'll even play music(country, of course). He is a native of Arkansas.

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      Overall it was a great and quick introduction to basic ciphers. Author did a good job weaving humor into the subject which made it more readable than a lot of other books on the subject. The only issue I had was it felt like the chapter on combining different types of ciphers was glossed over and could have used some elaboration on how the strengths of certain ciphers make up for the weaknesses of others when used together.

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    Street Cryptography - Christopher Forrest

    STREET CRYPTOGRAPHY

    A Quick and Dirty Way to Maintain Your Secret Conspiracy

    By Christopher Forrest

    Copyright 2012 Christopher Forrest

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    Table of Contents

    Introduction

    Part I: Subsitution Ciphers

    Chapter 1: The Caesar Cipher

    Chapter 2: The Polybius Square

    Chapter 3: Just For Fun

    Chapter 4: Vigenere Cipher

    Chapter 5: Straddling Checkerboard

    Part II: Transposition Ciphers

    Chapter 6: Historic Transposition Ciphers

    Chapter 7: Columnar Transposition

    Part III: Securing a Cipher

    Chapter 8: Random Number Generation

    Chapter 9: Super Encryption

    Chapter 10: One Time Pad

    Final Thoughts

    Appendix

    Appendix A: Solutions to Encryptions

    Appendix B: Vic Cipher

    Appendix C: Checkerboard Variations

    INTRODUCTION

    Ok, you have a conspiracy going. You have secret goals and operations going out in all directions. At first, you met face to face with all members of your group, and that worked. Things have changed. You now need a way to secretly deliver a message to someone you won't meet on a regular basis. Congratulations, you picked up the right book.

    Before I show you a good way to put together your cipher, I'm going to bore you with the details of why you don't want to use certain other ciphers.

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    PART I

    SUBSTITUTION CIPHERS

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    Chapter 1

    The Caesar Cipher

    This is, historically, the oldest cipher known to modern man. Its age alone should tell you that it has been beaten, to death, repeatedly. You can even check the New York Times puzzle section to see examples given to be cracked as a game. Long story short, DON'T USE IT.

    Now that I've gotten that out of the way, how about we take a look at what the Caesar Cipher actually is?

    Julius Caesar was a renowned general, and he needed to get secrets across to his

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