Links About Cryptography
Nowadays, privacy is becoming a primary concern for everyone. Here it is a non-comprehensive list of sites and projects (both software and hardware) about cryptography.
Sites About Cryptography
- Counterpane
- Index of papers about cryptography.
- Crypto Chamber
- The Crypto Chamber.
- Crypto Researchers
- List of crypto researchers with online web pages.
- Cryptography.com
- Index of papers about cryptography.
- Cryptosoft.com
- Index of papers about cryptography.
- EFF's Privacy Documents
- EFF "Privacy - Crypto - ITAR Export - FOIA-Obtained Documents" Archive
- Notes from the Hash Futures Panel
- The Second NIST Hash Workshop was a day and a half of presentations and discussion of a wide range of topics relating to cryptographic hash functions.
- Paulo Barreto
- Paulo Barreto has some informations about EC algorithms.
- Peter Gutmann (mirror)
- Peter Gutmann's excellent link collection (very large!).
- Phil Zimmermann
- Phil Zimmermann is the original creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) on which the the OpenPGP standard is heavily based.
- Software Generation of Practically Strong Random Numbers
- Peter Gutmann's paper, presented at the 1998 Usenix Security Symposium, provides a design for a reasonably OS-independant random data accumulator and generator and an analysis of its performance.
- Strong Distribution HOWTO
- This HOWTO by V. Alex Brennen's is a very readable paper on how to distribute Free Software; it even includes a chapter on how to do this anonymously.
- Ten Risks of PKI
- What You're not Being Told about Public Key Infrastructure By Carl Ellison and Bruce Schneier.
- Tiger
- Tiger is a new hash algorithm.
- Usability of Security: A Case Study
- A study of PGP 5.0's usability, which found that it was not sufficiently usable to provide effective security for most users.
Crypto-Based Software Projects
- CTC
- CTC is another free encryption tool.
- GNUTLS
- A somewhat related project to GnuPG is GNUTLS which is is a GPLed TLS/SSL implementation under development.
- psst
- It is a project to create a free ssh/sshd replacement. Niels Möller has meanwhile released the software under the name LSH.
- SCEZ
- SCEZ is a project to access Smartcards under GNU/Linux.
- secfone
- Project on secure telephoning.
