Cryptography and Network Security

"Human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve."
-- Edgar Allan Poe
(solve Poe's last cipher and win $2500.00)

"It used to be that giving export control advice consisted of helping clients to comprehend unbelievably ridiculous statements in the present tense. Giving such advice now largely consists of helping clients to comprehend unbelievably ridiculous statements in the future conditional subjunctive. That's some kind of progress."
-- Eben Moglen, General Counsel, Free Software Foundation, on the revised US crypto export regulations.

This page is unmaintained and full of many old, rotted links. Sorry.


Security sites and literature:

ISAAC group at Berkeley
Security and Encryption Links reference site
EECS UNIX Computer Security Primer
Eric Allman's 'Security Issues' page
RootShell lotsa good hacks
RSA's Intro to Cryptography FAQ (nice)
Security Tools and Techniques CD-ROM contents
International Association for Cryptologic Research
Bell Labs security FTP site
Cryptographic File System papers
IBM TJ Watson Mobile IP Security References
RSA Data Security
RSA Labs
CERT FTP site
LLNL Computer Incident Advisory Capability (great site)
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Index of firewalls
A very good Crypto page at UMBC
List of Good Security Books
RSA Factoring Challenge
National Security Agency
crypto stuff
some progs

Anonymity on IP networks:

Remailer list
The Blind Anonymous Server
Raph's "premail" remailer
Lance Cottrel -- Mixmaster remailer/attacking remailers
www.anonymizer.com

Cypherpunk Info:

Cypherpunks mailing list search interface
Cypherpunks mailing list Archive
Cypherpunks Home Page (at Berkeley)
Raph's homepage
Vince Cate's Cryptorebel/Cypherpunk Page
L.Detweiler

People:

L. Adleman
Bruce Schneier

PGP info: (thanks to Raph Levien for much of this)

War on the internet
great PGP index
draft of the PGP 3.0 API spec
security multipart draft MIME spec.
PGP 2.6 formats in internet draft form
PGP source

Software:

Security Tools
ssh
SATAN (Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks)
SATAN docs
LBLL Unix tools
5-line RSA perl script
...and a more verbose description
NCSA httpd security patch and info
JCrypt alpha release 0.1
Ssh (Secure Shell) Home Page
Privtool Mailer

(some) Papers:

Reflections on Trusting Trust -- Ken Thompson -- a must-read if you haven't already.
Quantum Crypto
Basic Flaws in Internet Security and Commerce -- made it to pg. 1 of the NY Times!
Public-Key Timing Attacks
Minimal key lengths for ... adequate security

Politics:

Testimony of Philip R. Zimmermann to the Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space of the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

Unsorted Additions:

The Cyberporn Debate
Digital Signatures Secure in the Strongest Sense Known
CME's Cryptography Timeline
Cypherpunks Key Cracking Ring
Phrack Magazine

more to come...

Todd D. Hodes, <mylastname @ myfullname dot org>