• One of the most common questions I get, is, "How can I learn more about cryptography?" In 2006, I put together a list here, many of the titles are still worth reading:
  • Books and Online Resources on Cryptography - Recommended Reading List
  • For a more updated list, you may wish to check the Wikipedia article, "Books on Cryptography"
  
  
• The Cyrillic Projector - Another Sanborn code-sculpture, which we cracked in September 2003. Check here to read how we did it.
   
  
• Steganography - The slides from my PowerPoint presentation about steganography, and whether or not the Al Qaeda terrorists may have been using it to plan the September 11th attack
   
  
• The PhreakNIC 6 Codes
  • The "official" PN6 Code, by Do|emite (cracked by me and Andy on the first day of the convention)
  • The "unofficial" PN6 DNA Code by jonnyX (cracked by me and Honey the day after PN6)
  • Links to mirror copies of the codes, and PN6 pictures
  
  
• PhreakNIC5 in Nashville (November 3-5, 2001)
  
  • The PhreakNIC5 Code (yes we cracked this one too, in about 36 hours)
    
    • The PN5 Code itself
    • The convention badges
    • The convention T-shirts (you'll need to solve codes on these too)
      
  
  
• Description of the PhreakNIC v3.0 Code, and my cryptography tutorial explaining how I cracked it.
  
  
  

• A list of the countries that I have visited (so far!)


• Pics of our mini-reunion of Polar Star Newfoundland Circumnavigation passengers in Toronto, November 9, 2002
   
  
• PhreakNIC 6 in Nashville, November 2002
   
  
• Newfoundland - In-process site about my trip to circumnavigate Newfoundland in September 2002
  
  
• The PN5 convention in Nashville, November 2001
   
  
• Pics of my October 20, 2001 trip to groundzero in New York. I had a memorial there with some of my customers.
  
  
• Some info about my trip to Southeast Asia (July 28 - August 19, 2001: Vietnam, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Macau, Hainan Island, and Canton)
  • Pictures - Page 1
  • Pictures - Page 2
  • Pictures - Page 3
  • Letters from the Front - My Emails from remote internet cafes along the way

Version Notes:

July 2019: Miscellaneous cleanup

September 2011: Added link to professional bio

April 2011: Miscellaneous updates, including to the autobiography page.

October 30, 2008: Mirrored all my AOL pages to: http://www.elonka.com/mirrors/AOL

2007 - 2008
Please see the Elonka in the News page for the latest. :)

March 2006
Added link to my Wikipedia biography, and updated book release date.

December 2005
Added section of the site for promotion of my book, The Mammoth Book of Secret Code Puzzles

November 2005
Posted pics from the NSA Crypto Symposium

April 2005
Rearranged page a bit, and added a link to my new site about Saint Raphael Kalinowski and my Uncle Emil Evancich's family tree.

January 6, 2004
I'm a Martian! My name is on a DVD which successfully landed on Mars over the weekend, with the NASA Rover "Spirit". Wow!

December 30, 2003
Added a "no credit card" free trial signup link for GemStone IV.

December 16, 2003
Added lots more info about Kryptos, including a new Kryptos FAQ. Posted a new Famous Unsolved Codes and Ciphers page. Added lots of new articles about miscellaneous accomplishments to the News page and also updated the at-a-glance page.

September 29, 2003
Posted link to the announcement about the cracking of the Cyrillic Projector Code. A timeline of who did what is here.

July 16, 2003
Slightly rearranged the header, including a reminder that I can be easily reached via AIM.

June 25, 2003
Did a major overhaul of the Press page

June 19, 2003
Added link to my latest work on the Cyrillic Projector Code

March 26, 2003
Linking to my quasi-blog (running since December 2002) at Memestreams: http://www.memestreams.net/users/elonka.

January 20, 2003
Added Simutronics Timeline with dates of product openings and other major events in the company's history

December 15, 2002
Made the Kryptos link live. Also added link to Bruce Schneier's December "Crypto-Gram" newsletter, since he mentions my steganography talk this month. I'm getting a slashdot effect, whee! Thanks Bruce. :)

December 9, 2002
Added a (gasp!) picture of myself at the top of the page. It's from one of my vacation pics in Newfoundland during the September 2002 circumnavigation. For more info on that trip, just click on the picture.

November 27, 2002
Added a link to Andy's blog page with the solution to the (official) PhreakNIC 6 Code

November 14, 2002
Added pictures to the PhreakNIC 6 page, and posted pictures of the Newfoundland Circumnavigation Reunion that took place in Toronto last weekend.

November 7, 2002
Added mirror copies of PN6 Codes and some other stuff

November 5, 2002
Added links to the PN6 codes, rearranged page organization

October 31, 2002
Added link to my Steganography PowerPoint slides.

October 24, 2002
Work on the Newfoundland site continues. Also posted a page with Jim Payne's 2002 tour schedule.

October 2, 2002
Though not officially linked-in yet, I'm starting to get some pics up from my latest vacation, a Circumnavigation of Newfoundland. Check http://elonka.com/newfoundland to see the site in progress.

September 10, 2002
Changed webcounters since my old Beseen one went out of business. Figures. Murphy's law: Your webcounter company will go belly up just as you get a link on Slashdot.

May 1, 2002
Added a link to the cryptography tutorial so you can get straight to there from here

November 16, 2001
Added pictures of my NYC and PN5 trips

September 11, 2001 (4 a.m.)
Added first draft of "Letters" page, with my Emails about the trip.

Added raw batch of Cambodian Prison pictures (pretty depressing stuff about the S-21 Prison and the Cambodian Killing Fields, so view at your own risk).

August 28, 2001
Posted page with links to first batches of pictures

Elonka Dunin: elonka@aol.com
Rockville, Maryland, USA


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