Miscellaneous Cryptology Documents

Cool stuff...

• Threat and Vulnerability Model for Key Recovery By the NSA NEW 28 April 1998 
• A summary of Canada's export controls on cryptographic software
• Call your Federal Representative to support HR 695 (SAFE) Please read and call today! If you don't think it is necessary, check out the next link...
• The FBI intendes to mandate key escrow
• Suit To Enjoin Export Regulation Of Crypto Software Hot on the heels of the Patel decision
• Berkeley Student Takes 3.5 Hours to Crack RSA 40-bit Key Contains a license to giggle.
• A Federal Judge rules ITAR unconstitutional! Reuters Blurb (brief)
• COURT DECLARES CRYPTO RESTRICTIONS UNCONSTITUTIONAL The EFF Press Release-very detailed.
• Fractions in Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Babylonia
• A Thesis: The Security of Cryptographic Primitives
• The U.S. Postal Service's Email Plans
• RSA Encryption in 3 lines of Perl code
• Info on the Secure Socket Library (SSL)
• Results of a Survey on PGP Pass Phrase Usage
• Efficient DES Key Search by Michael J. Wiener. How to build a machine for $1,000,000 that does exhaustive DES key search in 3.5 hours on average. (postscript file)
• Applied Cryptography, 2nd Ed. Table of Contents
• Basic Flaws in Internet Security and Commerce Using NFS spoofing to patch executables
• Electronic Marking and Identification Techniques to Discourage Document Copying from Infocom '94.
• Document marking and identification using both line and word shifting from Infocom '95.
• Hiding Information in Document Images
• Avalanche test for finding magic constants
• Bruce Schneier's Report From FAST SOFTWARE ENCRYPTION '96
• NETSCAPE: Single Computer Breaks 40-bit RC4 in Under 8 Days
• Perspectives On Security in the Information Age Includes estimated cost of lost sales due to crypto export restrictions in the USA
• Charges Against Phil Zimmerman Dropped
• Timing attacks agains RSA, DH, DSS
• Zimmerman Testifies that DES is vulnerable
• S. 1726--a really good encryption bill--finally

Not-so-cool stuff...

• Council of Europe proposes to outlaw strong encryption Bastards On Patrol
• The NSA Snarfs Down the Internet Bastards On Patrol In the USA
• Many anonymous remailers are run by the U.S. Government Bastards On Patrol In the USA II
• Nation Article About the Pentagon's Assesment of the Internet Includes Link to Assesment Paper
• Lotus Blinks in Crypto Standoff with NSA
• The "RSA Backdoor" Announcement

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