Wikipedia:WikiProject Cryptography

WikiProject Cryptography

Aim

The aim of WikiProject Cryptography is to help editors working on cryptography articles by providing a repository of information and resources, and providing a place for discussions that affect more than one article.

Lists

Editor oriented lists

• List of cryptography topics — Recent changes in articles about cryptography
• Redirects for cryptography pages
• /List of images — list of cryptography images

Reader oriented lists

• Topics in cryptography — an annotated list of cryptography topics
• Books on cryptography — an annotated list of suggested readings.
• List of cryptographers — an annotated list of cryptographers.

List of open tasks

Start from scratch: Room 40 Export of cryptography -- (some already in 40-bit encryption and Key size) Secure multiparty computation Bombe (ψ5 bounty offered) Hill cipher Grille (mentioned already in Transposition cipher) Block ciphers: G-DES, Khufu (cipher), Khafre (cipher), LOKI89/LOKI91, RC2, CMEA (cipher), DEAL, MMB, NewDES, REDOC, CS-Cipher, Hierocrypt-L1, CRYPTON, SEED, Nimbus (cipher), Anubis (cipher), Grand Cru, Noekeon, Q (cipher), SC2000, SHACAL, NUSH, Madryga, Crab (cipher), SXAL8 / MBAL, MacGuffin (cipher), BaseKing, Vino, E2 (cipher), ICE (cipher), MESH (cipher), SPECTR-H64, FEA-M Major overhaul: Expansion: Stream cipher Key schedule Skipjack (cipher) Merge: Possibly Public-key cryptography and Asymmetric key algorithm (see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cryptography)

Participants

If you're interested in editing cryptography articles, you might like to add yourself to this list, possibly with some information on what you know about / like to work on.

• Matt (Crypto) (Talk) — block ciphers.
• Arvindn
• ww
• Imran
• Securiger
• Dante Alighieri | Talk - drafted after dozens of edits related to restructuring of Enigma page.
• Jon

Stats

• Snapshot of cryptography article sizes
• Popularity stats for cryptography pages in March 2004
• On the 23rd of March 2004, the list of cryptography topics contained 319 cryptography-related articles; 85 of those were stubs (less than a 1000 characters long).
• On the 12th of April 2004, the list of cryptography topics contained 355 cryptography-related articles; 100 of those were stubs (less than a 1000 characters long).
• On the 3rd of May 2004, the list of cryptography topics contained 414 cryptography-related articles; 119 of those were stubs (less than a 1000 characters long).

Cryptography in other language Wikipedias

• WikiProjekt Kryptologie (German)

Free content

• Infosecpedia (old: GFDL new: Creative commons)
• The GNU Privacy handbook (GFDL)
• PlanetMath article on Cryptography and Number Theory (GFDL)
• Wikibooks Cryptography (GFDL) — (most content from Wikipedia anyway)
• Cracking DES (public domain, apart from a couple of chapters which reproduce published papers)

Other Internet content

• The Handbook of Applied Cryptography — standard academic cryptography reference, available in PDF form.
• RSA Laboratories' FAQ About today's cryptography
• Savard's glossary
• Ritter's Crypto Glossary and Dictionary of Technical Cryptography
• Helger's cryptography pointers
• The FreeS/WAN project's documentation includes a glossary, bibliography, some web links and a discussion of the politics of cryptography.

• Good descriptions of cryptography machines
  • Note: It seems we are unable to use this author's photographic material — even under the US Fair use provision — as the author derives commercial benefit from their sale. The author was approached in April 2004 regarding incorporating his written material into Wikipedia under the GFDL but he declined.

Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security

The Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security is to be published by Kluwer sometime this year (2004) and has some top cryptographers contributing (e.g. Eli Biham writing Differential cryptanalysis, Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen writing Rijndael). They seem to be aiming at around 500 articles. It would likely be profitable to compare their coverage to Wikipedia's.

{{msg:CryptographyProject}}

We might wish to tag the Talk: pages of articles which are directly about cryptography with a notice about this WikiProject. For this purpose, there is {{msg:CryptographyProject}}, which expands to the following:

(Discussion at /WikiProject Notice)

Navigation

Cryptography has some navigational elements to make it easier for a reader to find related topics.