Cryptography
Introduction | History
- International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR)
- AES Home Page
- The Rijndael Page
- sci.crypt Newsgroup FAQs
- New Directions in Cryptography by Whitfield Diffie and Martin E. Hellman
- Secure Communications over Insecure Channels by Ralph Merkle
- The history of Non-Secret Encryption at the British Communications-Electronics Security Group (CESG). Search for "Non-Secret Encryption".
Legislation and Regulations
- EU - E-Transactions (including Electronic Signatures)
- EU - Information Security (including Cybersecurity, PKI, and Cybercrime)
- Crypto Law Survey by Bert-Jaap Koops
- Digital Signature Law Survey by Simone van der Hof
PKI
- Norwegian PKI-Forum
- The PKI page - loads of PKI links
- EESSI - European Electronic Signature Standardization Initiative
- pki Challenge - EEMA
- NIST PKI Program
- The IETF PKIX Working Group
Cryptographic Modules
- FIPS PUB 140-2: Security requirements for Cryptographic Modules
- Cryptographic Module Validation (CMV) Program
Random Numbers
- RandomNumber Generation and Testing by NIST
- Randomness for crypto by David Wagner
IPSec
Software
- Linux FreeS/WAN IPSec for free
- CIPE, lightweight VPN for Linux and Windows
- OpenSSH for many platforms - Java Telnet/SSH Applet
- OpenSSL - The OpenSSL Project
- Stunnel - Universal SSL Wrapper
- GnuTLS - Implements the standards by the IETF's TLS working group
- GnuPG - a complete and free replacement for PGP. Supports RFC 2440: Open PGP Message Format
- The International PGP Home Page
- Source Available Cryptographic Libraries by Adam Shostack
- Crypto++™ Library
- S/MIME Freeware Library (SFL)
- SESAME
Link pages
Steganography
Books
- Handbook of Applied Cryptography by Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot and Scott A. Vanstone
- Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schneier contain some bullshit about SESAME. Read Tom Parker's news post (local copy)
- Practical Intranet Security by Paul Ashley and Mark Vandenwauver
- Cryptography Theory and Practice, Second Edition by Doug Stinson