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W4261 Introduction to Cryptography: Relevant Links

Here we include links to news stories, papers, and documents that may be of interest. This is not intended as a comprehensive list in any way. The choices were made following student interest, questions that came up in class, homework, or office hours.

ECRYPT II
Yearly report on algorithms and key lengths http://www.ecrypt.eu.org/documents/D.SPA.17.pdf
There is also lots of other information on the ECRYPT page.

An attack on Google maps over SSL, exploiting the fact that encryption always leaks information about the length of the plaintext (as we proved in homework 2).

NIST's SHA-3 Competition, and their final round report, where Keccak was selected from the five hash function finalists.

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