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. See also the Cryptography WikiPortal.
Lists and categories
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.
- Category:Cryptography
Summaries
The following are monthly summaries of activity within the WikiProject:
Some open tasks
Discussions
Active
- Most discussions are done on the talk page of this page.
Inactive
- /Featured — articles which may be suitable for Wikipedia:Featured articles
- Wikipedia:WikiReader/Cryptography — discussion about a publishable set of cryptography articles.
- /Cipher vs Cypher — a discussion of "cipher" and "cypher" spellings
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 - theory of cryptography
- ww
- Imran
- Dante Alighieri | Talk - drafted after dozens of edits related to restructuring of Enigma page.
- Jon
- NealMcB
- AntS
- Decrypt3 - it's why I chose the username.
- Peter Hendrickson
- CryptoDerk - number theory, galois fields, discrete log, elliptic curves
- Clement Seveillac - general crypto, crypto software, PKI, smart cards
- ciphergoth
- Schnolle - PKI related.
- Chris Peikert - theoretical crypto (zero-knowledge, multiparty computation, etc.), intersection of coding theory and crypto
- Noel - mostly interested in the history of cryptography, particularly its influence on WWII, but also have some interest in Internet-related stuff
- ral315 -- I'm an amateur mathematician, freshman in college, and creator of the Math WikiPortal. Check it out sometime!
- Ram Moskovitz PKI, software distribution security, DRM, CA Operations
- Julian Krause Computer Science Major, interested in all types of cryptography and math.
- Arnold Reinhold
- Levi CS also, computer security-related, can also make images and diagrams.
- E=MC^2 Nothing really in particular
- I Stanton anything, particularily math related.
- V. Alex Brennen PGP, Cryptanalysis, Number Theory (factoring,trust graphs)
- Dachshund - elliptic curves, applied crypto
- jonelo - security, one way hash algorithms
- Nahaj - Implementation issues, Validation issues (Author of the first open source government validated (US, Canada) SHA-1 implmentation, 2000 (two months ago a second such validation appeared, OpenSSL))
- Sir Ruptor (Talk) — block ciphers, stream ciphers, hash functions cryptanalysis, stream cipher components (LFSR, NLFSR, NLPFSR, etc.), secure key exchange protocols, reverse engineering related topics
- Davidgothberg - I used to work with and teach crypto in embedded systems. That is, how to use crypto in cars and other machinery. Back in the 90's I was part of a team that designed a "trusted computing system" for the cars of a big car manufacturer. So far I have mostly written hash related articles and made hash related pictures. I am mostly interested in crypto from a programmer and protocol point of view and I like to make pictures. I am not a math guy or cryptanalyst.
- Elonka Dunin (also User:Elonka) - Famous unsolved codes, history of cryptography, pencil and paper techniques, steganography, Al Qaeda codes, encrypted sculptures, cryptography in pop culture, code challenges
- Meekohi
- Batman900 - Diffie-Hellman problem, Crowds, Degree of anonymity; I am an undergraduate and am studying security at UVA, I am interested in anonymity/cryptography/number theory.
- Quarl (talk)
- DRLB - ECC, Provable security.
- Mangojuice (Talk) — theoretical aspects, multiple areas.
- William Allen Simpson — practical applications
- detach - Applying symmetric ciphers in programs, different modes of operation, used blowfish (CBC) and XTEA, would want to put more effort in research other area's
- Dr1819 - Random number generation, public/private key cryptography
- Silmarillion
- Thehumph - general cryptography
- the editor1(my page)
- Kaine I - dreamer of cryptography, general cryptography/cryptoanalysis
- User:Msoos - My field is computer security + cryptography. I am willing to proofread and correct articles.
- User:Raymondofrish - I'm working on a thesis on some large integer factorization methods.
- User:Stevebkk - historical ciphers
Featured articles
The subproject aims to improve articles to Wikipedia:Featured article quality.
- Possible/probable — discussion on which articles are or could be suitable.
- Currently candidates:
- Grille (cryptography) (see FAC)
Stats
- Snapshot of cryptography article sizes
- Popularity stats for cryptography pages in March 2004
- Various stats for cryptography pages in October 2004
| Date | Total number of articles | Number of stubs1 |
|---|---|---|
| 23/March/04 | 319 | 85 |
| 12/April/04 | 355 | 100 |
| 3/May/04 | 414 | 119 |
| 11/June/04 | 500 | 165 |
| 13/October/04 | 605 | 178 |
| 11/March/05 | 692 | 176 |
| 2/February/06 | 978 | 235 |
[1] "Stubs" are defined as articles with less than 1000 characters. Articles are counted from List of cryptography topics.
Cryptography in other Wikimedia projects
Free content
- Infosecpedia (old: GFDL new: Creative commons)
- The GNU Privacy handbook (GFDL)
- PlanetMath article on Cryptography and Number Theory (GFDL)
- Cracking DES (public domain, apart from a couple of chapters which reproduce published papers)
- NIST documents on Cryptography, mostly the FIPS standards
- Greg Goebel's Codes, Ciphers, & Codebreaking — public domain.
- CryptoDox — crypto wiki licensed under Creative Commons Attribution/Non-commercial/Sharealike v2.5 (the non-commercial restriction makes it less than "free" to GNU-style definitions).
Other Internet content
- The Handbook of Applied Cryptography — standard academic cryptography reference, available for download in PDF form (for free).
- 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.
- The ITsecurity.com Dictionary+ of Information Security
- Everything2's coverage of Cryptology topics; their Crypto project
- Cyclopedia Cryptologia — "an online encyclopedia of cryptographic protocols. There will be coverage of a few related topics such as encryption/decryption algorithms and a few historical references, but for the most part, the intent here is to be a reference on cryptographic protocols."
- Crypto law survey, a survey of existing and proposed laws and regulations on cryptography
- Crypto tutorial — by Peter Gutmann
Other cryptography encyclopedias
- David E. Newton's Encyclopedia of Cryptology (ISBN 0874367727), 1998, has over 550 articles with an overall slant on the history of cryptography, but plenty of modern topics included as well.
- The Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security (ISBN 038723473X) [1], [2] is to be published by Kluwer sometime in 2005 and has some notable 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, most with a technical / academic focus. It would likely be profitable to compare their coverage to Wikipedia's.
- Microsoft® Encyclopedia of Security, 800 pages (May 14, 2003), Microsoft Press International, ISBN 0735618771. (Table of contents). While covering the entire field of security, it has entries on a number of crypto topics.
Templates
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 {{CryptographyProject}}, which expands to the following:
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(Discussion at /WikiProject Notice)
- Discussion at: Template talk:Infobox Block Ciphers.
Currently trialling Template:Infobox Block Ciphers on AES, Blowfish, DES, FEAL, IDEA, LOKI97, RC2, RC5, Triple DES, XTEA
(Would) Need to apply to: 3-Way, Camellia, CAST-128, CAST-256, CMEA, DEAL, DES-X, GDES, GOST, Iraqi block cipher,KASUMI, Khafre, KHAZAD, Khufu, LOKI89/91, Lucifer, MAGENTA, MARS, MISTY1, MMB, RC2, NewDES, Red Pike, S-1, SAFER, Serpent, SHARK, Skipjack, Square, TEA, Twofish, RC6.
Instead of {{stub}}, you might want to use {{crypto-stub}}. One advantage is that Category:Cryptography stubs gives a list of all the cryptography-related stubs. The message is:
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So you can brag about what kind of articles you are editing on your user page.
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| | This user participates in WikiProject Cryptography. |
Navigational elements
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