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Resources from the Enigma Project:
Code Worksheets as used during Enigma Project visits
Code Worksheets Answers
The Caesar Wheel. Print and make.
Scytale (excel spreadsheet)
Other Code Activities by The Enigma Project
Enigma Project Poster lower-res (2Mb)
Enigma Project Poster higer-res (48Mb)
Follow-up activities from nrich:
nrich: Code issue, February 2012
nrich: Code issue. March 2004
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Other Speakers
Below is a list of other maths speakers I can recommend
Hands-on Maths Roadshow from the Millennium Mathematics Project
Maths of Paper Folding with Fran Watson
Think-Maths including Matt Parker, Katie Steckles and others
Maths of Juggling with Colin Wright
Rob Eastaway
Matt Parker
Ben Sparks
Andrew Jeffrey
Hannah Fry
Maths Busking
Maths Inspiration
Or search the STEM Directories
External Resources
Places to visit, places to learn more
Bletchley Park
Imperial War Museum
Churchill War Rooms
GCHQ Careers
Southampton University National Cipher Challenge
Eden Camp WWII Museum, Malton nr York
Learn more about codes, including code breaking tools and worksheets
Classical Ciphers by Wikipedia
Make a paper Enigma Machine, from Franklin Heath
Practical Cryptography
Imperial War Museum code page
Crypto Museum Enigma Page
Secret Codebreakers
Cipher Tools
Morse Code and Binary Translator
The Black Chamber by Simon Singh
Tony Sale’s Codes and Ciphers
Introduction to Cryptography. A short course by James Grime.
Maths of Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine. A detailed look at breaking Enigma by James Grime.
Computer Science Cryptography Course
Articles
Exploring the Enigma (Plus Magazine)
Cracking Codes (Plus Magazine)
Cracking Codes, Part II (Plus Magazine)
Alan Turing articles (Plus Magazine)
PM apology after Turing petition (BBC)
GCHQ trio recognised for key to secure online shopping (BBC)
‘Unbreakable’ encryption revealed (Quantum Cryptography) (BBC)
Tricking the perfect code machine (BBC)
One-time pad encryption dates back to telegraph code book (New York Times)
Books
Popular
The Code Book by Simon Singh
The Codebreakers: The comprehensive history of secret communication by David Khan
Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing, by Martin Gardener
Junior
The Cracking Code Book by Simon Singh. A junior version of The Code Book.
The Secret Life of Codes (Murderous Maths) by Kjartan Poskitt and Ian Baker
Mathematical (but accessible)
Cryptography: A very short introduction by Fred Piper and Sean Murphy
Cryptological Mathematics by Robert Edward Lewand
Codes and Ciphers: Julius Caesar, Enigma and the Internet by R.F. Churchhouse
Advanced
A Course in Number Theory and Cryptography by Neal Koblitz
Prime Numbers: A Computational Perspective by Richard Crandall and Carl B. Pomerance
Fiction
Enigma by Robert Harris
Between Silk and Cyanide: A codemaker’s war, 1941-1945 by Leo Marks
Video
Enigma Collection – A series of short YouTube videos by numberphile, with James Grime
Alan Turing – My Favourite Scientist (YouTube) (6 minutes)
Breaking the Code – A film about Alan Turing (YouTube) (91 minutes)
Enigma and the Secret History of Codes and Codebreaking – A lecture by James Grime
The Enigma Code – A lecture by David Perry (YouTube) (65 minutes)
History of Cryptography – Peter Rowlett (YouTube) (20 minutes)
After-gate attack on Quantum Cryptosystem – Vadim Makarov (current research video abstract) (YouTube) (5 minutes)
Station X: The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park. 4 part documentary. (DVD)
Enigma. Film with Kate Winslett (DVD)
Radio
GCHQ: Cracking the Code (40 minutes)
What If… the Germans had discovered that the Allies had cracked Engima during WWII? (30 minutes)
The Enigma Codebreakers. Woman’s Hour (45 minutes)
In the beginning was the nerd. The Millennium Bug, with Stephen Fry. Featuring the Enigma Project.