CMSC 652: Cryptology

This page contains various web pages that were useful to me in my cryptology studies. No guarantee that they'll interest you! :)

I did some research on MD5, and wrote a C++ port of it. Go see the above link for more information. Hey, and Ron Rivest even referenced it on his crypto page!

SSL is the Secure Socket Layer standard, currently up to V3.0. Netscape put it forward; it is in very common use for secure web transactions.

Lots O' Links

Mixmaster & Remailer Attacks

Privacy-enhancing technologies for the Internet

A nice article on anonymous remailer technology.

WIRED 1.2: "Crypto Rebels" by Steven Levy

Cryptologia

A journal devoted to cryptology, co-edited by Prof. Sherman.

Crypto-Log: Internet Guide to Cryptography

Journal of Cryptology

Anonymity and privacy on the Internet

John Gilmore's home page

DigiCash home page

David Chaum on anonymous email

CyberCash Home Page

A list of cryptologic journals

Cryptological bibliography

Computer Security Information

SSL Protocol V. 3.0

The de-facto standard protocol, used (and proposed) by Netscape.

BovineOne's RC5 Cracking Page

This is an attempt to crack the RC5-56 contest sponsored by RSA by taking advantage of idle CPU cycles.

Some generally useful URL(s). :)

MLA (Modern Language Association) documentation