This is a list of historical topics to cover.
- Scytale as an example of transposition cipher
- Trithemius/Alberti/Vigenere/Babbage -- polyalphabetic ciphers
- Wilkins' Mercury seems to be avilable online: https://archive.org/details/gu_mercuryorthes00wilk
- Shannon (some funny trivia here: http://nautil.us/issue/50/emergence/claude-shannon-the-las-vegas-cheat)
- Cypherpunks (intro: http://projects.csmonitor.com/cypherpunk, mailing list archives: http://cypherpunks.venona.com)
Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.
J. P. Barlow, A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
- Crypto wars (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWwaVe1RF0c&t=2s)
- Untold stories from crypto wars: https://gettys.wordpress.com/2018/04/09/mythology-about-security/
- Bitcoin
- Stuxnet
- I like the DAO hack story as a cautionary tale about crypto not bring sufficient by itself. More thinking needed.
The following stories are endlessly repeated elsewhere, so I am tempted to omit them:
- Enigma
- Code talkers
- Early computer hackers