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Alan Turing Cryptography Competition

December 9, 2015by Ibmathsresources.com

Alan Turing Cryptography Competition Manchester University are running their 5th Alan Turing Cryptography Competition this January.  It’s aimed at secondary and post 16 students.  If you are in the UK […]

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Beale’s Papers and a $65 million uncracked code?

November 30, 2015by Ibmathsresources.com

Crack the Beale Papers and find a $65 Million buried treasure? The story of a priceless buried treasure of gold, silver and jewels (worth around $65 million in today’s money) […]

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Cracking Codes Lesson

June 18, 2015by Ibmathsresources.com

Cracking Codes Lesson 1 Introduction: 5 minutes – Use a Morse Code Generator to play some (very slowed down) messages for students to decode.  Discuss why this is was a good […]

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Crypto Analysis to Crack Vigenere Ciphers

June 18, 2015by Ibmathsresources.com

Crypto Analysis to Crack Vigenere Ciphers (This post assumes some familiarity with both Vigenere and Ceasar Shift Ciphers.  You can do some background reading on them here first). We can […]

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Elliptical Curve Cryptography

June 18, 2015by Ibmathsresources.com

Elliptical Curve Cryptography This post builds on some of the ideas in the previous post on elliptical curves.  The excellent Numberphile video above expands on some of the ideas below. […]

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Aliens and Binary Codes from the Stars

June 14, 2015by Ibmathsresources.com

The Drake Equation was intended by astronomer Frank Drake to spark a dialogue about the odds of intelligent life on other planets. He was one of the founding members of […]

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This is the School Code Breaking website from British International School Phuket. Maths and code breaking have a long and shared history. The skills that make good mathematicians, problem solving, logical thought and perseverance are the same skills that make great code breakers. Governments and companies that deal in digital data are always on the look out for talented mathematicians - so who knows, maybe one day you could be a professional code maker or code breaker.

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  • Beale’s Papers and a $65 million uncracked code?
  • Steganography – How to Hide Codes in Pictures
  • One Time Pad – The Uncrackable Code?
  • Cracking Codes Lesson
  • Crypto Analysis to Crack Vigenere Ciphers
  • Using Chi Squared to Crack Codes
  • Elliptical Curve Cryptography
  • Cracking ISBN and Credit Card Codes
  • Aliens and Binary Codes from the Stars
  • RSA Encryption
  • NSA Code Breaking Puzzle
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