Collection of Links regarding Cryptography and Computer Security

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Last modified: 08/2005. New links at the sections' bottom.

German Links regarding Kryptographie und Computersicherheit

Books and Papers about Cryptography

Lists of People

• Web pages of interest to crypto researchers (by K. McCurley)
• David Wagner's List of Cryptographers

Questions and answers

• Snake Oil FAQ (Encryption Software to Avoid) (old but good!)
• Where to get the latest PGP FAQ
• RSA Labs Frequently Asked Questions (partly out of date now)
• Secure E-Mail
• PGP 4 Dummies
• How many primes are there?
• Q and A about Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithms
• The now has a FAQ

Institutions

• DigiCrime, Inc.
• IACR International Association for Cryptologic Research
• NIST Federal Information Processing Standards
• CCCNS (Center for Cryptography, Computer and Network Security)

Conferences and Calls for Papers

• Call for papers (from UCL Crypto Group)
• Conferences, sorted by deadlines (in French)
• IACR Calendar of Events in Cryptology

Software

• International Cryptographic Software Pages for Encryption, Decryption, Cryptanalysis, Steganography, . . .
• Ssh (Secure Shell) Home Page
• HFLOAT page (bignum stuff, digits of pi, and the like)
• Rootshell Security flaws, Hacking, Exploits, ...
• GnuPG The GNU Privacy Guard
• A Primitive Polynomial Search Program

How Secure are your Computer and your Browser?

• Check at it-sec.de (G)
• Browser-Testtool at datenschutz.ch (G)

Privacy

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• Privacy Digest

More good Stuff!

• Wiener's article on efficient DES key-search (large!)
  
• CryptoLog ( Mirror in Mannheim, Germany)
• Security and Encryption Links (Peter Gutmann)
• Integrity Sciences, Inc. - SPEKE password authentication
• The Visual Cryptography Project
• Bo Lavare's Smartcard Security Page
• Cryptography (Searching the Cryptography Mailing List)
• Crypto-Gram Newsletter (Monthly, written by Bruce Schneier)
• Some Courses in Cryptography
• New Directions in Cryptography (the landmark paper from Diffie and Hellman)
• Top Twenty Internet Security Vulnerabilities
• The Failure of Vulnerability Research
• Many essays from SANS
• AN APPRAISAL OF THE TECHNOLOGIES OF POLITICAL CONTROL (working document for the 'STOA Panel' of the EU parliament)
• The Spy Museum
• RSA Data Security, Inc.
• AES Round 1 (zipped Docs, IP Statements, Test Values)
• Crypto Law Survey (by Bert-Jaap Koops)
• Windows 2000 has been evaluated secure. So what?
• Cryptonomicon.net
• Forum On Risks To The Public In Computers And Related Systems