Quantum Encryption: just how does the whole thing works anyway? (Diagrams included)
7713bed7843dd4157b7ba10f4240e3dfTen Risks of PKI: What You're not Being Told about Public Key Infrastructure. Real security is never that simple, and that is especially true with PKI.
4e24486decb1c1bbc5f9b468c3b62b57The Cocaine Auction Protocol: On the Power of Anonymous Broadcast. This paper builds on a case study, of an anonymous auction between mistrustful principals with no trusted arbitrator, to introduce "anonymous broadcast" as a new protocol building block.
388334262f32ff845ce9decd8578dc3fThe Basics of Cryptography: Learn the basic of cryptography and how to break it in this short, simple and easy-to-understand text.
994ee70a4dedc2f770717a890dedb82cDon't know anything about PGP? Wanna know what is it good for? How to use it? What are the advantages of encrypting your files and your Email? How PGP works? Why is it so hard to crack? Want a simple tutorial to teach you all this? Then go for this one! Simple, easy to understand and relatively small.
1e2b414bce41919c2a507a370e05f210Codes, Keys, and Conflicts: Issues in US Crypto Policy: A report of a special panel of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) US Public Policy Committee.
8ca180ebc45fdf3d9f5970a3ce753c80Augmented Encrypted Key Exchange: A Password-Based Protocol Secure Against Dictionary Attacks and Password File Compromise: An extension of the protocol described in nekeps that removes the requirement that the host store passwords in cleartext .
676489a8375b6a660e33f028d0c2a47eA Cryptographic File System for Unix: A description of a UNIX file system implementation that provides transparent encryption and decryption of files stored on the disk.
247617bdadb5de8e21e9f76a1cde7762Key Management in an Encrypting File System: A description of how "smart cards" can be used to manage the keys used by the encryption file system described in cfsps.
f202ead6ad528c4aa3cc1e0bb7f20685A High-Speed Software DES Implementation: Describes a high-speed software implementation of the Data Encryption Standard.
587698fac6ec097d734fee1b95ae49bcUsing Content-Addressable Search Engines to Encrypt and Break DES: A very simple parallel architecture using a modifed version of content-addressable memory can be used to cheaply and efficiently encipher and decipher data with DES-like systems Describes how to implement these systems, and also how to construct a large scale engine for exhaustively searching the keyspace of DES.
e9d2bd527afc266c69f2700e18ff8c13Protocol Failure in the Escrowed Encryption Standard: A description of some protocol weaknesses in the Clinton administration's Escrowed Encryption Standard, also known as the Clipper Chip.
32d32020161027125d7b637943419c93Why Cryptosystems Fail: A survey of the failure modes of retail banking systems, the second largest application of cryptography.
6398dac9fdcff9ed7bc044d0098b538fEncrypted Key Exchange: Password-Based Protocols Secure Against Dictionary Attacks: A combination of public- and private-key cryptography that allows two parties sharing a common password to exchange confidential and authenticated information over an insecure network The protocol is secure against active attack, and also against off-line "dictionary" attacks.
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