Tasty » Adam Sampson's cryptography bookmarks

The Keccak sponge function family edit / delete

The hash function that's just won the SHA-3 contest. Excellent documentation, including a guide to implementing it that makes very interesting reading.

to cryptography hash sha3 ... on 15 October 2012

Block-layer Encryption edit / delete

Worryingly comprehensive. I just wanted to know how to use cryptsetup!

to cryptography dm dmcrypt ... on 16 September 2012

VCRPlus Controller Code Algorithm Explained edit / delete

to cryptography tv vcr vcrplus videoplus ... on 03 May 2012

Frode Weierud's CryptoCellar edit / delete

Interesting WW2 stuff.

to bletchley cryptanalysis cryptography history turing ... on 22 April 2012

Bitcoin P2P Cryptocurrency | Bitcoin edit / delete

Someone seems to have made a hashcash-like scheme that actually works -- notably, it has a limited amount of money overall. Neat.

to cryptography money ... on 23 October 2010

The Rutherford Journal - Colossus: Breaking the German 'Tunny' Code edit / delete

Good overview.

to colossus cryptography history retrotech turing ww2 ... on 13 September 2010

WPA CRACKER edit / delete

More interesting for the links in their FAQ than for the service itself, although a NetworkManager plugin that uses this would be an obvious application.

to cryptography network security wireless wpa ... on 17 August 2010

dm-crypt wiki : LUKS edit / delete

Setting up encrypted filesystems with dm-crypt -- very straightforward these days! I need to do this on sinclair at some point.

to cryptography dm filesystem software ... on 25 August 2009

Cryptographie militaire edit / delete

Kerckhoffs' well-known 1883 paper on military cryptography.

to cryptography history ... on 02 May 2009

staple / unstaple edit / delete

"staple is a program that inseparably binds together the data in a file using a cryptographic mechanism known as an All-or-nothing transform." With some interesting uses for it.

to cryptography software ... on 26 March 2009