Bibliographies

• Anbar's Computer & Communications Security Reviews Archive


• Annotated Bibliography on Information Hiding


• Bibliography on Authentication Codes


• Bibliography on Secret Sharing Schemes


• DBLP Computer Science Bibliography


• Eugene H. Spafford and Stephen A. Woeber's User Authentication And Related Topics : An Annotated Bibliography


• FOCS Bibliography


• Gilles Brassard's Bibliography of Quantum Cryptography


• Horster's Overview about ElGamal related publications from 1984-1994


• Lawries Cryptography Bilbiography


• Lewis McCarthy's Authentication & Key Establishment Protocol Design & Analysis Citations


• Petersen's Bibliography on Electronic Payment Systems


• STOC Bibliography


• The Hypertext Bibliography Project

Books and Publishers

• Introduction to Cryptography
  
  
  • Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schneier
  
  
  • Book (draft) (Free !) by Josef Pieprzyk
  
  
  • Cryptography : Theory and Practice by Doug Stinson
  
  
  • Handbook of Applied Cryptography (Free !) by Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot and Scott A. Vanstone
  
  
  • Public-key cryptography (NIST Special Publication 800-2, Apr. 1991.) (Free !) by James Nechvatal [According to the preface, "[t]his publication presents a state-of-the-art survey of public- key cryptography circa 1988 - 1990"]
  
  
  
  
• Formal Foundations of the Cryptography
  
  
  • The Foundations of Cryptography (Free !) by Oded Goldreich
  
  
  • Introduction to Theoretical Cryptography (Free !) by Johannes Buchmann
  
  
  • Lecture Notes on Cryptography (Free !) by S. Goldwasser and M. Bellare
  
  
  
  
• Cryptography and Cryptanalysis
  
  
  • Lattices in Cryptography and Cryptanalysis (Free !) by Daniele Micciancio
  
  
  • Lattices and Their Application to Cryptography (Free !) by Cynthia Dwork
  
  
  • Turing's Treatise on Enigma (Preliminary Version) by the late Dr. Alan Turing
  
  
  
  
• Algorithms, Complexity Theory, etc.
  
  
  • Advance algorithms (Free !) by Johan Hastad
  
  
  • Complexity Theory (Free !) by Johan Hastad
  
  
  • Introduction to Complexity Theory -- Lecture Notes (Free !) by Oded Goldreich
  
  
  
  
• Information Theory
  
  
  • Claude Shannon : Collected Papers
  
  
  • A Mathematical Theory of Communication (Free !) by Claude E. Shannon
  
  
  • Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems (Free !) by Claude E. Shannon (readable scanned images of the original paper)
  
  
  • Shannon's Legacy (Free !) by Professor Jim Massey, from Laboratory for Signal Information & Processing, ETH Zurich.
  
  
• Quantum Computation
  
  
  • Quantum Information and Computation (Free !) by John Preskill
  
  
  
  
• Publishers
  
  
  • Security & Related Books by Neil F. Johnson.
  
  
  • Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Volumes
  
  
  • Cryptography and Security List
  
  

Calendar

• Calendar from Cipher


• Conference Calendar from UCL Crypto Group

Collections of Links

• Alfredo De Santis's bookmarks


• Counterpane Lab's Crypto Links


• Helger Lipmaa's Cryptology pointers


• Peter Gutmann's Crypto/Security Super Site


• Rivest's Crypto-collection

Dictionaries

• Dictionary of Algorithms, Data Structures, and Problems


• Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics - Alphabetical Index -

Downloadable Software and Source Code

Crypto API

• BSAFEeay : BSAFEeay is a free, public domain implementation of RSA Data Security's BSAFE API, using the SSLeay crypto library.


Crypto Libraries

• Free Cryptographic Libraries : A comparison by Adam Shostack


• MIRACL : Multiprecision Integer and Rational Arithmetic C/C++ Library by Shamus Software Ltd.


• SSL (Secure Socket Layer)


• Apache-SSL : The Open Source toolkit for SSL/TLS


• OpenSSL : The Open Source toolkit for SSL/TLS


• SSLeay : Free implementation of Netscape's Secure Socket Layer - the software encryption protocol behind the Netscape Secure Server and the Netscape Navigator Browser.



IPsec

• FreeS/WAN for Linux


Kerberos

• Kerberos : The Network Authentication Protocol


PGP

• CTC : Collection freeware PGP-interoperable encryption software package


• The International PGP Home Page


• Information on Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)



PKI

• OpenCA


Pseudorandom Number

• DIEHARD


• DiehardC, The C version of DIEHARD


• ENT : A Pseudorandom Number Sequence Test Program


SSH

• OpenSSH


Steganography

• NICETEXT System by George Davida


VPN

• VPS : Secure, Open Source VPN for Linux


• VTun : Virtual Tunnels over TCP/IP networks with traffic shaping, compression and encryption


• Zebedee : Secure IP tunnel


Etc.

• Encrypted PDFs


• Key Recovery Utilities and Resources


• Snacc : An ASN.1 to C/C++ Compiler


• SRP : Secure Remote Password protocol


• WireTapped.net

FAQs

• RSA Labs FAQ


• Determining Strengths For Public Keys Used For Exchanging Symmetric Keys by Hilarie Orman and Paul Hoffman


• Minimal Key Lengths for Symmetric Ciphers by Matt Blaze, Whitfield Diffie, Ronald L Rivest, Bruce Schneier, Tsutomu Shimomura, Eric Thompson, Michael Wiener


• Recommended elliptic curves for federal government use by National Institute of Standards and Technology, July 1999.


• Selecting Cryptographic Key Sizes by Arjen Lenstra and Eric Verheul


• The history of Non-Secret Encryption

Government Sites & Nonprofit Organizations

• ACM SIGSAC (Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control) Home Page


• IACR (International Association for Cryptologic Research) Home Page


• ICISA (International Communications and Information Security Association)


• IFCA (International Financial Cryptography Association)


• NIST (National Institute of Standard for Technology)


• NSA (National Security Agency)


• USENIX

Miscellaneous

• Number Theory
  
  
  • Number Theory Web
  
  
  • The Prime Pages - prime number research, records, and resources -
  
  
• Etc.
  
  
  • Acceptance rates for Cryptology conferences by Lars R. Knudsen
  
  
  • Cryptography Timeline by Carl Ellison
  
  
  • CypherNet
  
  
  • List of crypto and security courses by Aviel D. Rubin
  • National Cryptologic Museum by NSA

News

• Cipher - Newsletter of the IEEE CS TC on Security and Privacy


• Crypto-Gram Newsletter by Counterpane


• Cryptome


• Internet Security Review


• Microsoft Security Advisor


• RSA Labs


• CryptoBytes Technical Newsletter


• News


• RSA Lab's Bulletin - News and advice on data security and cryptography
• Security News by CryptoSoft GmbH

Patents & Standards

• Patents
  
  
  • IBM Patent database
  
  
  • US Patent Office
  
  
• Federal standards
  
  
  • Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
  
  
  • FIPS - NIST Federal Information Processing Standards [.html | .ps]
  • NIST Computer Security Division
  • NIST Cryptographic Sites
  
  
• IEEE and ANSI Standards
  
  
  • ANSI - American National Standards Institute
  
  
  • IEEE P1363 (Standard Spec. for Public Key Cryptography) Home Page
  
  
• Industry Standards
  
  
  • RSA Laboratories' PKCS
  
  
• International Standards
  
  
  • ISO - International Organization for Standardization (please, choose SubCommittee 27)
  
  
• Internet Standards
  
  
  • IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) Home Page
  
  
• Etc.
  
  
  • Center for Information Standards Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Standardization Home Page
  
  
  • Merged Security Glossary by CSIS
  
  
  • Ritter's Crypto Glossary and Dictionary of Technical Cryptography
  
  
  • SECG (Standards for Efficient Cryptography Group)
  
  
  • Standard Cryptographic Algorithm Naming by David Hopwood

Researchers

• Camenisch's Homepages of Some Cryptographers


• Counterpane Lab's Crypto Links - Researchers


• Joye's Interesting References on Elliptic Curves ...


• LCIS Cryptographers' Homepages


• LIST Links


• LWB's List of cryptographer's homepages and publication lists


• McCurley's List of Cryptographer's Home Pages


• Schnorr's Links to Cryptographers' Homepages and Email addresses


• Wagner's Cryptography People

Research Papers

• Theses
  
  
  • ETH Zurich [PhD-Theses of the Department of Computer Science]
  • MIT [Cryptography and Information Security Group : Theses]
  
  
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute [Theses From CRIS Lab]
  
  
  
  
• Journals
  
  
  • ACM SIGCOMM Online Archives of Computer Communication Review (CCR)
  
  
  • ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC)
  
  
  • Computers & Security by Elsevier Science
  
  
  • CRYPTOLOGIA
  
  
  • Designs, Codes and Cryptography
  
  
  • Electronics Letters by IEE
  
  
  • IEICE OnlineJournal
  
  
  • Information Processing Letters by Elsevier Science
  
  
  • Journal of Computer Security
  • Journal of Cryptology
  
  
  • SIAM Journal on Computing
  
  
• Crypto Papers
  
  
  • Counterpane Systems [Index of Crypto Papers Available Online]
  
  
  • CryptoSoft GmbH [Crypto publications online]
  
  
  • Cryptography Research, Inc. [Index to Conference Papers Online]
  
  
  • IBM Research [Security Research Group at IBM Zurich | Network Security Group at IBM Hawthorne]
  
  
  • ISI [Publications on Strong Password Authentication]
  
  
  • Naval Research Laboratory [Information Technology Division]
  
  
  • NDSS - Network and Distributed System Security Symposium
  
  
  • SAC - Workshop on Selected Areas in Cryptography
  • SIRENE [Publications]
  
  
  • Thomas Jakobsen's Cryptanalysis of Block Ciphers
  
  
  
  
• Technical Reports
  
  
  • BRICS [BRICS Publications]
  
  
  • Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research (CACR) at the University of Waterloo [Technical Reports]
  
  
  • CWI [CWI tech report]
  
  
  • ECCC - Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity
  
  
  • Elsevier Science [Information Security Technical Report]
  
  
  • Gemplus [Advanced Research Team and the Cryptographic Department]
  
  
  • HP Labs [Bristol | Palo Alto]
  
  
  • IACR [Cryptology ePrint Archive]
  
  
  • RSA Labs [Tech Notes]
  
  
  • Technion [Computer Science technical reports]
  
  
  • Theory of Cryptography Library
  • Weizmann Institute of Science [Technical reports in Computer Science and Mathematics since 1993]
  
  
  
  
• Lecture Notes & Surveys
  
  
  • Collection of Lecture Notes, Surveys, and Papers
  
  
  • NIST Computer Security Special Publications
  
  
• Tutorials
  
  
  • Ari Juels's Survey of Technologies in Electronic Commerce
  
  
  • Certicom's On-Line ECC Tutorial
  
  
  • Interactive guide to RSA
  
  
  • Lorrie Faith Cranor's Electronic Voting -- Computerized polls may save money, protect privacy
  
  
  • Mark Vandenwauver's Introduction to Cryptography
  
  
  • M. Steiner and M. Waidner's Tutorial 'Secure Electronic Commerce'
  
  
  • Peter Gutmann's Crypto Tutorial
  
  
  • Paul Ferguson and Geoff Huston's What is a VPN ?
  
  
  • Savard's Cryptographic Compendium
  
  
  • Victor Shoup's Why chosen ciphertext security matters

Since September 13, 1999.