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CISH-6960H08 Cryptography and Network Security

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Recommended Web Sites:

Classic Cryptography and Security How Secure is the Front Door? www.lysator.liu.se/mit-guide/mit-guide.html National Cryptologic Museum www.nsa.gov/museum/ My pictures www.rh.edu/~rhb/NSA/ The Beale Papers www.unmuseum.org/bealepap.htm smd173.tripod.com/Beale/BealePapers.htm Enigma The Enigma Cipher Machine: History of Solving, http://www.enigmahistory.org/main.html Bletchley Park http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/ Bletchley Park Heritage Society www.codesandciphers.org.uk/enigma/index.htm Enigma Machine (an electronic model) http://www.xat.nl/enigma-e/desc/index.htm Wikipedia articles: (1) the Hebern rotor machine, (2) the Enigma and (3) the Bombe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebern_rotor_machine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombe	Crypto Mathematics Random Numbers Flip a Coin <www.random.org/flip.html> A Lava Lamp and a Webcam www.lavarnd.org/start-of-tour.html Totally Random by Tom McNichol www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.08/random.html Random Noise Sources world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html world.std.com/~reinhold/dicewarefaq.html#tables world.std.com/~reinhold/truenoise.html Random.org < www.random.org/ > HotBits (Radioactive Decay) www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/ Yarrow <http://www.schneier.com/yarrow.html> Random Bits from Rotating Magnetic Disks www.bell-labs.com/user/shriver/random.html Prime Numbers The Prime Pages www.utm.edu/research/primes/index.html Mersenne Primes: History, Theorems and Lists www.utm.edu/research/primes/mersenne.shtml Finding primes & proving primality www.utm.edu/research/primes/prove The Largest Known Primes www.utm.edu/research/primes/largest.html Reaching new heights with new Mersenne prime! (12/07/2001) Read the story. 2^13466917-1 www.utm.edu/research/primes/notes/13466917/index.html A forty-first Mersenne found May 2004: 2^24036583-1 Programs and links to find primes http://primes.utm.edu/links/programs/
Block Ciphers and DES EFF DES Cracker Project www.eff.org/Privacy/Crypto/Crypto_misc/DESCracker/ Steven Levy offers an excellent history "Crypto" mosaic.echonyc.com/~steven/crypto.html Contempory Block Ciphers and AES Rijndael Web Page www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~rijmen/rijndael/ Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Q and A http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/aes/aesfact.html NIST Rijndael csrc.nist.gov/encryption/aes/rijndael/ Rijndael Documentation: csrc.nist.gov/encryption/aes/rijndael/Rijndael.pdf AES is a Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) specifically, FIPS Publication 197 csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips197/fips-197.pdf	Other Block Ciphers Ron Rivest's RC5 and RC6 Publications: http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/publications.html http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/rc6.pdf http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/rc6.ps http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/rc5.ps http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/rc5rev.ps Bruce Schneier's Twofish: http://www.schneier.com/paper-twofish-paper.html http://www.counterpane.com/twofish.pdf Bruce Schneier's Blowfish: http://www.schneier.com/blowfish.html http://www.schneier.com/paper-blowfish-fse.html http://www.schneier.com/paper-blowfish-oneyear.html
Public Key Cryptography (RSA) Whit Diffie Prophet of Privacy by Steven Levy www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.11/diffie.html Steven Levy offers an excellent history "Crypto" mosaic.echonyc.com/~steven/crypto.html Public Key (Elliptic Curve) Online Tutorial on Eliptic Curve Cryptography certicom.com/index.php?action=ecc_tutorial,home certicom.com/index.php?action=res,ecc_faq	Hash Functions MD5 www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1321.html RIPEMD-160 www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~bosselae/ripemd160.html SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512. csrc.nist.gov/CryptoToolkit/tkhash.html HMAC Keyed-Hash Message Authentication Code (FIPS 198) csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips198/fips-198a.pdf
Secure MIME and PGP Philip R. Zimmermann is the creator of Pretty Good Privacy. www.philzimmermann.com Where to Get PGP www.philzimmermann.com/EN/findpgp/index.html Thawte Personal Email Certification System - Free www.thawte.com/email/index.html Thawte Web of Trust www.thawte.com/wot/index.html	Internet Security and e-Commerce The SANS Institute www.sans.org CERT* Coordination Center on Internet Security, www.cert.org/nav/ Kerberos? web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/ PepperCoin <http://www.peppercoin.com/> FAQ www.peppercoin.com/General/FAQ.ppp
Newsletters and FAQs Schneier's Crypto-Gram Newsletter www.schneier.com/crypto-gram.html www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-current.html SANS NewsBites www.sans.org/aboutsans.htm www.sans.org/newlook/digests/newsbites.htm Information Security Magazine www.infosecuritymag.com CryptoBytes newsletter (RSA Laboratories) www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/cryptobytes/index.html FAQs on Cryptography www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/faq/index.html VeriSign Secure Site www.verisign.com www.verisign.com/security/newsletters.html	Network Security Vendors Counterpane Systems (Home of Bruce Schneier), www.counterpane.com/ www.counterpane.com/literature.html TruSecure <www.trusecure.com/> PGP Security <www.pgp.com> Network Associates <www.nai.com> RSA Security <http://www.rsasecurity.com/> Thawte Digital Certs <www.thawte.com/home.html> VeriSign Security <www.verisign.com/> www.verisign.com/solutions/index.html www.verisign.com/products/index.html
Miscellaneous Resources Applied Cryptography, 2nd Edition, http://www.counterpane.com/applied.html Quadralay's Cryptography Archive, http://www.austinlinks.com/Crypto/ Cryptography: The Study on Encryption, http://world.std.com/~franl/crypto/ Yahoo Security and Encryption Jump Page Steganography Steganography & Digital Watermarking - Information Hiding www.jjtc.com/Steganography/	People in the Business of Security Steven M. Bellovin Dorothy E. Denning @Georgetown Dorothy E. Denning @CTIW Ronald L. Rivest Bruce Schneier www.schneier.com/essay-pitfalls.html www.schneier.com/essay-whycrypto.html William Stallings

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