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FAQs
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Cryptography FAQ |
FAQs prepared by crypt-comments@math.ncsu.edu |
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RSA FAQ |
FAQs prepared by research group at RSA Labs,
the company founded by the inventors of RSA. |
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CYPHERNOMICON |
Cypherpunks FAQ and more. |
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Key Size |
How big should my key be? |
References
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References |
References prepared by crypt-comments@math.ncsu.edu
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References |
Bruce Schneier's list, focused on online
resources |
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Wikipedia Cryptography |
Descriptions of many cryptography algorithms.
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Crypto Anarchist Manifesto |
Tim C. May. Not just a manifesto but a nice description
of the problem.
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Crypto Anarchy and Virtual Communities |
Tim C. May.
A longer piece, expanding on many of the basic ideas of
the manifesto and
introducing some new ones about communities in cyberspace.
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Cryptography Handbook
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Alfred J. Menezes,
Paul C. van Oorschoot, Scott A. Vanstone.
A textbook, with chapters made available online,
which requires a bit of general mathematical background.
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EES and the Clipper Chip |
Daniel Shipengrover. A nice terse description
of the ethical issues raised with the
introduction of the EES (Escrowed Encryption
Standard), Skipjack (the algorithm
that embodies it), and the Clipper Chip
(the chip that implements the algorithm). Lots of good further
reading links at the bottom of the page.
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People and Orgs
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EFF
| Electronic Frontier Foundation. Digital Freedom and Privacy Watchdog |
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PGP |
MIT's
Pretty Good Privacy distribution site
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Philip Zimmerman
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This is the guy who was the target
of a 3-year criminal investigation because he created and distributed
PGP
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Bruce Schneier
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Author of popular
Applied Cryptography
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W3C |
WC3 (World Wide Web Consortium). This scarey sounding
organization was founded to develop protocols
that ensure interoperability for the world
wide web. This is the security page. |
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Francis Litterio |
Crypto page for the WWW Virtual Library |
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Adam Back
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a cryptosystem sig page
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Paul (Paj) Johnston
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Includes some basic hashing and code-cracking software.
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H.X.Mel |
One of the authors of our textbook.
Excellent list of cryptography resources
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Vince Cate
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Cypherpunk/Cryptorebel Page
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QRlab
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Online encryption info guide. Useful list of resources
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News
Concepts and Code
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Group Theory and Cryptography |
General intro to the math behind RSA |
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Onlineit degree Webpage
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A very useful set of cryptography links. |
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Kerckhoff's Principle
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A cryptosystem should be secure
even if everything about the system, except the key,
is known. In particular, if the method of
encryption is known.
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| Cryptography Demo
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Point and click application demonstrating various
cryptography-based apps: RSA, MD5, simple ciphers.
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A. Kuchling's Cryptography toolkit
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in usable form |
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One-time pad
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Concept for the only perfect cryptosystem.
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One-time pad
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Code by Andrew Kuchling (in Python)
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Password cracker
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Alec Muffet's incredibly simple program.
Often used by system
administrators to find bad passwords. Requires a Linux/Unix
password file.
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GPG HOW-TO
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A. P. Lawrence's readable get-started doc for gpg
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GPG Manual
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More than you need to know but clear.
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Digital ID Manual
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Clear explanation of CAs (certificate
authorities), PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)
and digital certificates (also called Digital IDs), from
the point of view of a commercial vendor of same.
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RSA and factoring
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RSA
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A terse comprehensible description
of the RSA protocol
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| RSA-129 factored
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A very large RSA number was factored in 5000 mips years by
distributed computing (600 volunteers in 20 countries)
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Largest Primes
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Chris Caldwell's University of Tennessee primes page, which
discuess the largest known primes, as well listing
priumes of various types.
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Codes
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DES
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Wikipedia article on the now-obsolete DES system
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RSA
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A terse comprehensible description
of the RSA protocol
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Public Key Servers
These may or may not
have web pages, access with a public key encryption
program like pgp.
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pgp.mit.edu
| The MIT public key server |
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keys.se.linux.org |
Swedish linux source runs key server
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keyserver.veridis.com |
Encryption software vendor Veridis runs
a key server
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Certificate Authorities
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Verisign Digital ID
| Verisign/RSA, a leader in security
and verification services for business clients,
serves as root for a large web of commercial certificates.
This Digital ID (used by, say,
a software consultant) costs $19.95. |
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Digital Signature Trust
| Commercial Certificate Authority;
Personal Digital certificate (synonym
for Digital ID) costs $24. |
Open Source/Free Software
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Gnu Manifesto
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Richard Stallman's fiery call to arms
for the free software movement.
The opening shot in the free software
revolution? This
is a point of some controversy.
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Hackers
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Steven Levy's famous book about hackers,
focusing on figures in the free software
movement.
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Free as in Freedom
| Sam Williams's biography of
Richard Stallman, legendary hacker and free-software advocate.
For a little balance, read this somewhat less than dazzled
review by Eric Raymond.
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The Cathedral and the Bazaar
| Eric S. Raymond, Open Souce advocate, libertarian,
and hacker, wrote this famous essay about the open source phenomenon. |
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The Luxury of Ignorance: An Open Source Horror
Story
| This is a frank informative piece
by Eric Raymond about usability
issues and open-source software. |
Digital Cash
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Digital Cash |
Digging those Digicash blues.
Summary story on wired.news on where digicash is now. |
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Digicash Failure |
Chapter 11 Bankruptcy filing for Digicash (98). News.com
story with links to stories of other successes and failures
in the electronics payments business.
Wired.com story. |
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David Chaum |
Chaum is holder of the
orginal digital cash patents that provided the intellectual
property Digicash was founded on. After Digicash's
collapse, a company called Ecash Technologies acquired the
patents, some of which have already expired. |
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Pay Pal |
Definitely
not digital cash but the closest thing.
Does not provide anonymity, does not
acheive the low transaction costs
promised by digital cash, and does not provide
immediate transactions. |
Anonymous email
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Mailing address:
Department of Linguistics and Oriental Languages
San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego, CA 92182-7727
Telephone: (619) 594-0252
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