crypt-dev - Re: Project Resources

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Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 22:54:33 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: crypt-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Project Resources

On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 03:28:49PM -0300, Yuri Gonzaga wrote:
> >
> > Sure.  Please feel free to create this wiki page:
> > http://openwall.info/wiki/crypt
> 
> So, the title should be "crypt"?

Yes, I think "crypt" will work for the wiki page name.

> Do you have any starting point material to the conceptual part?

I'm not sure what you're asking for.  Introduction to cryptography?

You might want to take a look at the Handbook of Applied Cryptography,
which is freely downloadable here:

http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac/

(although it obviously does not mention modern hashes/ciphers such as
SHA-2 and AES).

History and concepts of password hashing?  Something more specific to
our project?

In terms of history, the bcrypt paper gives a little bit of it, and you
might not need more.

So you can start this wiki page by adding links to:

http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/provos.html
http://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt.html

and to your john/FPGA page.

Alexander