Links
Kryptografie.de describes a lot of classical and modern ciphers and geocaching functions in easily understandable words and often offers the possibility to encrypt or decrypt a text online. Many terms from cryptanalysis are also explained: https://Kryptografie.de
Webpage to the book "The Code Book" by Simon Singh from the year 2000 and the corresponding cipher challenge: https://simonsingh.net/cryptography/cipher-challenge
Website of the Cryptoclub of the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC): (very colourful, for kids; sadly, Flash required) https://www.cryptoclub.org
The Spy Camp ("Spioncamp") of the University of Wuppertal offers proved and tested learning stations about cryptography and cryptology for teachers and pupils – (German only): https://ddi.uni-wuppertal.de/website/index-ddi.html
Secret Codes and the Enigma Machine (for pupils; site a little bit outdated): https://motivate.maths.org/conferences/conf95/c95_resources.shtml
Website about the CODEBREAKERS.EU cryptology game (currently 5th edition): (e.g. as a game for teams with three members, offering 3 levels a 6 tasks (lectures), supported by hints and "cryptologic bombs" to deal with the Enigma) https://thecodebreakers.org
Website on the National Cipher Challenge NCC (University of Southampton, IBM, GCHQ): https://www.cipherchallenge.org
Great simulations of machines which ran at Bletchley Park and in Germany during WW2:
- Lorenz SZ42: https://lorenz.virtualcolossus.co.uk
- Virtual Typex: https://typex.virtualcolossus.co.uk
- Enigma: https://enigma.virtualcolossus.co.uk
- Colossus used to break the SZ42: https://www.virtualcolossus.co.uk/colossus3d
Famous websites dealing with encrypting and breaking classical ciphers:
- http://www.cryptoprograms.com
- https://www.cryptogram.org
- https://williammason.github.io/rec-crypt/Bions_gadgets_on_Github.html
Further links at the website of the CrypTool portal (CTP): https://www.cryptool.org/en/links-and-books
Further links at the website of the MysteryTwister cipher challenge (MTC3): https://mysterytwister.org/home/links