Cryptography Links
Useful Cryptography Links
Standards Docs
- FIPS documents on-line
- Secure Hash FIPS 180
- DES FIPS 46-3
- DES Modes of Operation FIPS 81
- 3DES isn’t on-line, but there’s a good Wikipedia article now
- AES FIPS 197
- Cryptographic Message System (CMS) RFC 2630
- PKCS docs at RSA Labs
- Crypto FAQ by RSA Labs
Collected Links
Things I’ve tagged on Delicious
- Applied Cryptography Engineering — Quarrelsome Survey of practical advice on using crypto in software for software types who occasionally dabble and need to be pointed at good crypto practice and not just algorithms.
- Why passwords have never been weaker—and crackers have never been stronger | Ars Technica Good article on password security
- Why Cryptosystems Fail Interesting paper on why systems fail and it usually isn't breaking the crypto algorithm per se
- Moserware: A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) AES in cartoons
- TrueCrypt - Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X and Linux
- Peter Gutmann's Home Page Peter Gutmann's home page. Links to a number of interesting topics. The x.509 style guide is a classic.
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