W4261 Introduction to Cryptography:
Relevant Links
Here we include links to news stories, papers, and documents that may be of interest. This is not at all intended as a comprehensive list in any respect -- the choice was made following student interest; each of these links directly answers a question a student asked me, or was recommended as interesting reading by a student.
- ECRYPT II (9/6)
Yearly report on algorithms and key lengths http://www.ecrypt.eu.org/documents/D.SPA.17.pdf
- NIST (9/8)
Cryptographic hash project page: http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/hash/index.html
Cryptographic hash algorithm (SHA-3) competition:
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/hash/sha-3/index.html
- More on SHA-3 Competition (9/13)
More information about the SHA-3 competition and the candidates that were submitted: http://ehash.iaik.tugraz.at/wiki/The_SHA-3_Zoo
- Breaking XML Encryption
Tibor Jager and Juraj Somorovsky's paper on how to break XML encryption.
"...In this work we describe a practical attack on XML Encryption,
which allows to decrypt a ciphertext by sending related
ciphertexts to a Web Service and evaluating the server
response. We show that an adversary can decrypt a ciphertext
by performing only 14 requests per plaintext byte on average.
This poses a serious and truly practical security threat on all
currently used implementations of XML Encryption..."
paper
- Presentation on how cyberattacks threaten real world peace: Presentation
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