Research Links

Following are links to other crypto-related web sites. Cryptography Research regularly adds to this page in an effort to provide a comprehensive list of crypto resources.

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Algorithms

Blowfish

SHA- (FIPS 180-1) the government standard cryptographic hash function is available as a text document

NIST pages on SHA, DSS, DES, and the AES project.

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Attacks

Differential Power Analysis.  A new class of attacks discovered by Cryptography Research Inc. researchers.

Timing AttacksPaul Kocher's paper on these attacks on RSA and other algorithms.

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Bibliographies of Journal and Conference Articles (no full text)

Michael Ley's comprehensive hypertext computer science bibliography, the DBLP

Large, all-text, database-style listing of journal and conference article citations. Maintained by Be Hubbard and Ronald L. Rivest

Large, all-text, database-style listing of journal and conference article citations from the Seiferas Collection at SFU

David Jones's Hypertext Bibliography Project

The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies from Alf-Christian Achilles (also available via an FTP site)

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Books, Conferences and Journals

The Handbook of Applied Cryptography

IACR, the International Association for Cryptologic Research, holds conferences and publishes the Journal of Cryptography, etc.

Applied Cryptography

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Commercial Crypto Sites

Cryptomathic, independent cryptographic consultants, Denmark

GemPlus Smartcards

IBM Research makes its technical papers available

IBM Zurich's Security team publications are available

RSA Data Security

Security Portal

ValiCert, Inc. includes digital certificate information

DES (Data Encryption Standard) specification FIPS PUB 46-2

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Government Crypto Policy

Bureau of Export Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce has crypto regulations online

Congressional Research Service issue brief #90639 (1/2/97).

Cryptography Policy page from the Electronic Privacy Information Center

Electronic Frontier Foundation site includes export restrictions information

International Arms Trafficker Training Page highlights questionable US encryption export policies

National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST offers an extensive site. Pages of interest include: • NIST Computer Security Resource ClearinghouseNIST Cryptographic Sites pageNIST links on government key escrow

Parrhesia.com political and legal information

Worldwide Survey of Cryptographic Products by Network Associates has implications for US export policies

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Individuals' Crypto Sites

Mihir Bellare's crypto links

Claude Carlet

David Chaum

Claude Crepeau's site. Includes many of his papers and links.

Carl Ellison's site, including crypto policy resources Hal Finney's site includes Crypto and policy links

Law Professor Michael Froomkin's site includes crypto legal info

John Gilmore

Stef Hoeben's site includes security links

Bert-Jaap Koops Includes original, detailed resources on crypto, digital signature, and key escrow policies in Europe and worldwide, including his Crypto Law Survey of crypto laws and regulations in countries around the world.

Helger Lipmaa's Crypto site. Includes people links useful for tracking down author

Francis Litterio's Cryptography section on the WWW Virtual Library

Ron Rivest and his highly acclaimed page of links

Joel Seiferas

Tatu Ylonen's International Cryptography site

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Introductions to Cryptography

Cryptography overview from NIST

Introduction by Tatu Ylönen

Data Encryption Techniques is a brief discussion from SFT.

Sci.crypt newsgroup FAQ

John Savard's introduction to cryptography

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Newsgroup Resources

Crypto articles gopher collection at Wiretap contains some significant newsgroup postings.

Sci.crypt newsgroup FAQ

Sci.crypt archive

Sci.crypt.research newsgroup archive

Search Newsgroups with Google

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Other Lists of Cryptographers' Homepages

Kevin McCurley

LWB

Ron Rivest

Helger Lipmaa

Research Group of Prof.C.P.Schnorr

Holger Petersen's site

David Wagner

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Other Lists of Links

Crypto-Log: Internet Guide to Cryptography includes all sorts of good stuff

Cryptography.org's Crypto Archives

Peter Gutman's long list of Crypto links includes links to "challenges"

Extensive list of Cryptography Links by Richard Pinch

Quadralay's Cryptography Archive is quite extensive

Security and Encryption pages at Yahoo link to various crypto resources online

David Wagner's crypto links

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Organization Sites

Bureau of Export Administration Commercial Encryption Export Controls

University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory's Computer Security Group

CWI (Netherlands) includes technical reports on-line

DigiCrime.  Humor?

ETH Zurich Information Security and Cryptography Research Group includes Ueli Maurer publications

ETH Zürich Institute for Signal and Information Processing (ISI) (including Carlo Harpes) members have some papers online

German National Research Center for Information Technology, Institute for Telecooperation Technology (TKT) includes research areas in security and smart card technology.

International Association for Cryptologic Research conferences, publications, and organizational information.

Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communications, Graz University of Technology includes information on its research activities.

GRECC (Groupe de Recherche En Complexité et Cryptographie), ENS Paris Includes Jacques Stern, Serge Vaudenay, many others and their own publications.

Information Security & Telecommunications Laboratory (Korea) has a library with papers by C. H. Lim and P. J. Lee.

COSIC (Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography) at ESAT, University of Leuven, Belgium, includes A. Bosselaers, E. De Win, Bart Preneel, P. van Oorschot, and V. Rijmen publications.

Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) Microelectronic Laboratory Crypto Group describes its activities, but includes few papers online

MIT Cryptography and Information Security Group of the LCS TCG includes a publications page

NIST Computer Security Resource Clearinghouse

U. Nebraska at Lincoln Department of Computer Science and Engineering includes Doug Stinson

Cryptography Project of the NADA Theory Group of the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. Members include Johan Håstad, Mikael Goldmann and Mats Naslund, though few of their publications are accessible online.

The Royal Holloway, University of London, Department of Mathematics includes Simon Blackburn and Mike Burmester, but lacks their publications online.

UCSD Department of Computer Science and Engineering includes Mihir Bellare and Bennet Yee

Information & Communications Security Laboratory, Sung Kyun Kwan University, Korea, includes Dong-Ho Won

Cryptography, Computer and Network Security, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee includes links to some faculty member pages with publications

National Institute of Standards and Technology

NIST Computer Security Resource Clearinghouse includes NIST publications

Groupe de Recherche en Complexité et Cryptographie (GRECC)

Crypto Research from COSIC, Netherlands some members' publications

Security and Cryptography Page from ISSI SIRENE at the University of Dortmund and maintained by Michael Waidner. Extensive list of links to protocol, policy, toolkit and other product information

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SSL Information

The Secure Sockets Layer 3.0 protocol specification is available online in HTML and PostScript formats from Netscape

SSL 3.0 was designed by Alan Freier, Phil Karlton, and Paul Kocher

The outdated SSL 2.0, while containing several problems, is still supported in some browsers and available from Netscape

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S/MIME and PGP Information

The S/MIME message specification and S/MIME certificate handling specification are available online

The RSA Data Security S/MIME FAQ from RSA provides other pointers and information about S/MIME

The PGP S/MIME specification is available from Cryptography Research as an RFC

For more information about PGP, visit Pretty Good Privacy, Inc.