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CrypTool 2 Release 2023.2 published
Dec 24th, 2023
In December 2023, we released "CrypTool 2 - 2023.2", the second release version this year. The last previous version of CrypTool 2 was released in June 2023. Since June of this year, we have enriched CrypTool 2 with new components, improved existing templates and fixed various bugs. In the area...
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Student crypto 2023 in Kelkheim
Dec 8th, 2023
After four years, on 08.12.2023 the student crypto sponsored by Deutsche Bank took place again at the Kelkheimer Eichendorffschule. This time the topic was historical and modern cryptography as well as blockchains and quantum cryptography. On the LinkedIn presence of Deutsche Bank you can also find pictures of the event....
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Student crypto 2023 in Munich at Youth Science Club
Oct 20th, 2023
After a long break, our team was finally able to present the topic of cryptology to interested students again. We were guests of the Youth Science Club: »The Youth Science Club gives 27 students from the 8th to 10th grade the opportunity to get to know scientific work in depth...
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CrypTool 2 Release 2023.1 published
Jun 16th, 2023
In June 2023, we released version "2023.1" which is the first release of the year. The previous CT2 version was released in December 2022. Since the December version, we have introduced some interesting new ciphers, such as GRANIT 160, a hand cipher used by GDR spies, as well as the...
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More than 50 undeciphered letters of Mary Stuart were found and deciphered by George Lasry, Norbert Biermann and Satoshi Tomokiyo
Feb 7th, 2023
For Mary Stuart researchers, it's probably the biggest cryptography discovery in recent years. Our colleagues George Lasry, Norbert Biermann and Satoshi Tomokiyo have found over 50 previously undeciphered letters written by Mary Stuart to Michel de Castelnau Mauvissière, the French ambassador to England. All of the letters were in the...
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CrypTool 2 Release 2022.2 released
Dec 24th, 2022
In December 2022 we released "CrypTool 2 – 2022.1", the first release this year. The last CrypTool 2 release before was published in December 2021. Over the year, we implemented several new classical cipher components (e.g. the Mexican Army cipher disk or the Bifid and Trifid cipher), machine cipher components...
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CrypTool 2 Release 2021.2 released
Dec 24th, 2021
In December 2021 we released "CrypTool 2 – 2021.2", the second release this year. The last CrypTool 2 release was published in May 2021. Probably the most interesting new implementation of CrypTool 2 is the blockchain simulation. With the blockchain component and its templates, you can simulate a blockchain. The...
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New Version of CrypTool 1 — CT 1.4.42 released
Dec 21st, 2021
CrypTool 1.4.42 was published on December 21, 2021. Compared to CrypTool 1.4.41, this version contains a range of small bug fixes and improvements for CrypTool 1 (CT1). The open-source project CrypTool (CT) creates the most widespread e-learning programs for cryptography and cryptanalysis. The CT programs are used at many schools...
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CrypTool 2 Release 2021.1 published
May 12th, 2021
In May 2021, we published the release "2021.1", which is the first one this year and a major functional update. The last CT2 release was published in April 2020. A YouTube video showing the changes in the new version can be watched here: What is New in the CrypTool 2...
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JCrypTool version 1.0 released
Nov 30th, 2020
Version 1.0 of JCrypTool was released today, November 30th, 2020. It is intended for beginners and experts in cryptography alike. JCrypTool is available in English and German. Already bundled are over 100 plugins that cover classical and modern cryptography. View a full list of included cryptography features. ×Close Visit the...
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CrypTool website completely renewed
Oct 30th, 2020
In the course of 2020, the CrypTool portal was comprehensively renewed once again. The website at www.cryptool.org was originally created in 2003 for CrypTool 1 and has been rebuilt into the "CrypTool portal" in 2008 with the addition of CrypTool 2 and JCrypTool. 2009 it has been extended by CrypTool-Online....
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Cryptology game "the CODEBREAKERS" 2020
Oct 25th, 2020
The next edition of the CODEBREAKERS International Cryptology Game is just starting! It mixes short lectures about the secrets of the ENIGMA cipher machine with interesting challenges. The challenges are presented in 3 levels (Trial, Basic, and Advanced). For the Basic and Advanced levels, teams are invited to participate; for...
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Privacy-Friendly Contact Tracing
Jun 5th, 2020
There are two new websites which explain how the privacy-friendly protocols of the corona tracing apps work: 1) The animation This is a real nice "animation" for normal users showing all the steps of the process in an animated way. The animation focuses on what's going on from the view...
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CrypTool 2 Release 2020.1 published
Apr 1st, 2020
In April 2020, we published the first release of CrypTool 2 (CT2) this year, named "2020.1". This is a major functional update (compared to the last release "2018.3"). In this release, we improved the performance of the Workspace Manager significantly as well as of CT2 in general. Additionally, we updated...
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Subscriber record: 1000 at CT2 Facebook page and 100 at the CT2 YouTube channel
Mar 17th, 2020
The CrypTool 2 (CT2) project is active on several social media platforms. On the one hand, there has been the Facebook page for several years, which reached 1000 subscribers this weekend. On the other hand, there is our YouTube channel since October, which has reached more than 100 subscribers in...
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Student crypto 2019 in Kelkheim
Nov 8th, 2019
On November 8, 2019, the student crypto sponsored by Deutsche Bank took place for the ninth time at the Kelkheimer Eichendorffschule. The students of the two mathematics labs of EDS and the students of the computer science basic course of the Main-Taunus-Schule Hofheim took part. With new tasks and CrypTool...
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20+ Years CrypTool – Looking Back and Forward
Nov 5th, 2019
End of October 2019, many members of the CrypTool team as well as invited guests met in Munich to celebrate the 20th+ anniversary of the CrypTool project. The event took place at the research institute CODE of the university of the Bundeswehr and was organized by the working group "Datenschutz...
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Cryptology game "THE CODEBREAKERS" 2019
Oct 16th, 2019
The contest runs from October 21st to end of November 2019. This game mixes short lectures about the secrets of the ENIGMA cipher machine with interesting challenges. Registration is open already under "THE CODEBREAKERS". The challenges are presented in 3 levels (Trial, Basic and Adventure). For the Basic and Adventure...
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JCrypTool updates to Eclipse 2019-06
Jul 1st, 2019
JCrypTool weekly builds are based on the latest Eclipse version 2019-06 since July 2019. Since the latest weekly builds since July 2019, JCrypTool is based on the latest Eclipse version 2019-06 and benefits from all its improvements. The next stable version of JCrypTool will be based on this Eclipse version...
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New Version of CrypTool — CT 2.1 (2018-3) released
Dec 21st, 2018
The new release version of CrypTool 2.1 was published on Dec 19, 2018. This "Xmas version" is available in 3 languages (German, English, and Russian). It contains many small improvements and a direct connection to the Swedish DECODE database for encrypted, historical documents. The open-source project CrypTool (CT) creates the...
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Student crypto 2018 in Kelkheim
Nov 9th, 2018
On 2018-11-09 the student crypto sponsored by Deutsche Bank took place for the eighth time in the Kelkheimer Eichendorffschule. At the student crypto, teachers and students of the upper school could immerse themselves in the science of secret language (cryptology) and try out the procedures themselves, both manually and with...
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New Version of CrypTool — CT 1.4.41 released
Mar 30th, 2018
A new release of CrypTool 1 was published on March 27, 2018. This mature version is available in 6 languages (German, English, Spanish, Polish, Serbian, and French). Compared to 1.4.40, it contains many small bug fixes and corrections (especially for functions using Animal, Flash, HTML, and PDF). The open-source project...
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Student crypto 2018 in Hanau
Jan 29th, 2018
On 2018-01-29 a student crypto took place in Hanau at the Karl-Rehbein-Schule.
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Student crypto 2018 at the Universität Kassel
Jan 29th, 2018
On 2018-04-28 the sixth student crypto took place at the University of Kassel. As in the previous five years, the student crypto were again a cooperation between the Department 16 Electrical Engineering/Computer Science of the University of Kassel and the Schülerforschungszentrum Nordhessen (SFN). On the student crypto, students and teachers...
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Student crypto 2017 in Kelkheim
Nov 3rd, 2017
On 2017-11-03 the student crypto, sponsored by Deutsche Bank, took place for the seventh time in the Kelkheimer Eichendorffschule. At the student crypto, teachers and their high school students could learn the science of the secret language (cryptology) and try it out for themselves.
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Student crypto 2017 at the Universität Kassel
Oct 5th, 2017
On 2017-10-05 the fifth student crypto took place at the University of Kassel. As in the previous four years, the student crypto were again a cooperation between the Department 16 Electrical Engineering/Computer Science of the University of Kassel and the Schülerforschungszentrum Nordhessen (SFN). On the student crypto, students and teachers...
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New Release of CrypTool — CT 1.4.40 released
Mar 31st, 2017
A new release of CrypTool 1 was published on September 21, 2017. This version is available in 6 languages (German, English, Spanish, Polish, Serbian, and French), and it contains many bug fixes and corrections. The open-source project CrypTool (CT) creates the most widespread, free e-learning programs for cryptography and cryptanalysis....
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Student crypto 2016 in Kelkheim
Nov 25th, 2016
On 2016-11-25 the student crypto, sponsored by Deutsche Bank, took place for the sixth time in the Kelkheimer Eichendorffschule. At the student crypto, teachers and their high school students could learn the science of the secret language (cryptology) and try it out for themselves.
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CryptoPrograms with Online Analyzers
Nov 7th, 2016
The website CryptoPrograms http://www.cryptoprograms.com is dedicated to create and solve classical ciphers online. New on this site are analyzers for solving classical ciphers without any knowledge of the keyword and, in many cases, the key length. Routines for solving around 40 cipher types are provided.
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The movie "A Good American" and discussion
Nov 7th, 2016
The ZKM will perform the recently released interview film "A Good American" by Fritz Moser on 16 December 2016 in Karlsruhe. Details of the event can be found here: http://zkm.de/event/2016/12/sicherheit-oder-datenschutz-ein-falscher-gegensatz Following the documentary "Citizenfour" by Laura Poitras (2014) and the feature film "Snowden" by Oliver Stone (2016), this section now...
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JCrypTool Release Candidate 8 available
Oct 3rd, 2016
JCrypTool 1.0.0 Release Candidate 8 is available for download! This release contains a lot of bugfixes, feature enhancements and new crypto plug-ins. Thanks to all our contributors! All changes are listed on the Core Issues and on the Crypto Issues pages.
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Join the #CSCG
May 2nd, 2016
The Cyber Security Challenge Germany (CSCG) is a hacker competition for pupils and students. Starting on 2 May 2016, the young hackers face the 12 online challenges, which have to be solved by the beginning of August. For each challenge the participants can get points. The best 10 pupils and...
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Student crypto 2016 at the University of Kassel
Apr 18th, 2016
On 2016-04-18 the fourth student crypto took place at the University of Kassel. As in the previous three years, the student crypto were again a cooperation between the Department 16 Electrical Engineering/Computer Science of the University of Kassel and the Schülerforschungszentrum Nordhessen (SFN). On the student crypto, students and teachers...
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Anti-Prism Party Season 4 - Protection from surveillance
Mar 14th, 2016
To conclude the "Global Control and Censorship" exhibition, the Karlsruhe IT Security Initiative (german: "Karlsruher IT-Sicherheitsinitiative", KA-IT-Si), the Competence Center for Applied Security Technology (german: "Kompetenzzentrum für angewandte Sicherheitstechnologie", KASTEL), and the CyberForum e.V. invite you to the 4th season of the Anti-Price Party at the ZKM Karlsruhe on Friday,...
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Exhibition GLOBAL CONTROL AND CENSORSHIP
Mar 14th, 2016
The exhibition is for young and old. It opens eyes to worldwide surveillance and censorship, and offers Edward Snowden a fully furnished room, if German politicians and judges have the courage to grant a persecuted and worldwide awarded whistleblower the right to stay. Start Sat, 03.10.2015, end Sun, 07.08.2016.
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Student crypto 2015 in Kelkheim
Nov 6th, 2015
On 2015-11-06 the student crypto sponsored by Deutsche Bank took place for the fifth time in the Kelkheimer Eichendorffschule. On the student crypto, teachers and their high school students can learn the science of the secret language (cryptology) and try it out for themselves.
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Cryptology game CODEBREAKERS.EU — 4th edition
Jun 8th, 2015
On 1st of June 2015 the first of 6 tasks starts on the Enigma level. For three weeks two times per week new documents with tasks are published. Most important is the time that you need for the final task. Notes, time bonuses and "cryptologic bombs" help to solve the...
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Student crypto 2015 in Kassel and Hanau
Apr 22nd, 2015
On April 20, 2015, the third student crypto took place at the University of Kassel with over 80 participants. Like last year, this student crypto is a cooperation project between the Department 16 Electrical Engineering/Computer Science of the University of Kassel and the Schülerforschungszentrum Nordhessen (SFN). At the student crypto,...
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Student crypto 2014 in Kelkheim
Nov 14th, 2014
On November 14, 2014, the student crypto, sponsored by Deutsche Bank, took place for the fourth time in the Eichendorff Schule in Kelkheim. At the student cryptos, teachers and their high school students can learn the science of the secret language (cryptology) and try it out for themselves.
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CT 2.0 released
Aug 25th, 2014
The release version of CrypTool 2.0 was released on 20th Aug 2014. We would be happy if many of you use it for teaching, self-study, education and awareness and give us feedback.
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Article about solving the Double-Transposition Challenge in Cryptologia
Jun 28th, 2014
A level X challenge in MysteryTwister by Klaus Schmeh using the double-column transposition cipher withstood a long time against cryptanalysis efforts. Nevertheless, it was solved in November 2013 by George Lasry. The according attack against the double-column transposition cipher was just described in the journal Cryptologia and is now implemented...
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Student crypto 2014 in Kassel
Apr 29th, 2014
On 2014-04-29, another student crypto took place at the University of Kassel. Like last year, this student crypto was a cooperation project between the Department 16 Electrical Engineering/Computer Science of the University of Kassel and the Schülerforschungszentrum Nordhessen (SFN). At the student crypto, students and teachers of the upper school...
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Student crypto 2013 at bbz Siegen
Dec 17th, 2013
On 2013-12-16 - 2013-12-17 the student crypto of the bbz in Siegen took place again. At the student crypto, teachers and their students of the upper school can learn the science of the secret language (cryptology) and try it out for themselves.
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New CT2 Beta
Nov 29th, 2013
The 10th Beta of CrypTool 2 was released on 19th October 2013. You are cordially invited to test and give feedback. Final version of CT 2 is planned to be published in July 2014.
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Student crypto 2013 in Kelkheim
Nov 7th, 2013
On 2013-11-07 the student crypto, sponsored by Deutsche Bank, took place for the third time in the Eichendorff Schule in Kelkheim. At the student cryptos, teachers and their high school students can learn the science of the secret language (cryptology) and try it out for themselves.
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Crypdroid - Android app for secure encryption
Apr 17th, 2013
Crypdroid - Are apps a good idea? Crypdroid encrypts messages with AES and encodes the ciphertext in a way that it could be sent as a normal text message. It is compatible with the dedicated tool within CT2. Smartphone owners visiting the CrypTool project can find cryptographic algorithms on the...
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Student crypto 2013 in Kassel
Apr 15th, 2013
On 2013-04-15, the student crypto took place for the first time at the University of Kassel. This student crypto is a cooperation project between the Department 16 Electrical Engineering/Computer Science of the University of Kassel and the Schülerforschungszentrum Nordhessen of the University of Kassel, funded by the Robert Bosch Foundation....
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Undercover Job - Treasure hunt
Mar 7th, 2013
A spyhunt consisting of 9 missions - Along with the new Jazz album of the Henning Wolter Trio there is a free online game Undercover Job. Henning Wolter also is the author of two MTC3 challenges Music Code - Part 1 und Music Code - Part 2.
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New CT2 Beta
Jan 2nd, 2013
The 9th Beta of CrypTool 2 was released on 20th December 2012. You are cordially invited to test and give feedback.
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Third public beta of CrypTool 1.4.31
Jul 26th, 2012
The new CrypTool 1.4.31 beta is ready. This version is now available in 6 languages German, English, Spanish, Polish, Serbian and Greek. We would appreciate if you test this beta in detail and give us feedback. The release version of CT 1.4.31 is scheduled for mid 2014.
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First public beta of CrypTool 1.4.31
Jul 26th, 2012
The new CrypTool 1.4.31 beta 05 is ready. You are cordially invited to test and give feedback. Final version of CT 1.4.31 is planned to be published mid 2013.
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Testing RSA moduli for shared prime factors
May 24th, 2012
The RSA algorithm for public-key cryptography is based on the presumed difficulty of factoring large bi-prime integers, the factoring problem. However, as pointed out in Lenstra et al [1] it is possible, given a set of moduli, to factor some of them by finding shared primes. This way the factoring...
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Schülerkrypto 2012 of the bbz Siegen
Feb 28th, 2012
On 2012-02-28 - 2012-03-01 the student crypt of the bbz in Siegen took place again. At the student crypto, teachers and their students of the upper school can learn the science of the secret language (cryptology) and try it out for themselves. The student crypto took place on three days:...
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New CT-Webportal
Jan 20th, 2012
The new CrypTool Portal has been gone live on 12th January 2012.
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Free Cryptography Course from Stanford Professor Dan Boneh
Dec 20th, 2011
This course explains the inner workings of cryptographic functions and how to correctly use them. The course starts till end of March 2012 and will last at least 5 weeks. Normally, students have to work through the exercises in the same week the lessons are published. You can find more...
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Announcement for CT1
Oct 25th, 2011
For CrypTool 1 it is planned to further on release only bugfix versions. The next one is 1.4.31. New features are going into the successors CrypTool 2 and JCrypTool.
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