Travis H wrote: > Would a wiki specifically for crypto distribute the burden enough to > be useful? Or should we just stick to wikipedia? Is it doing a > satisfactory job?
The English Wikipedia's crypto coverage is a mixed bag. Out of the 800+ articles, there's a handful of fairly-good entries (e.g. "Data Encryption Standard"), yet more than a few abysmal entries. It's typically more current than HAC or Applied Cryptography, yet not as comprehensive or consistent in quality. My advice is to think of Wikipedia as collection of draft articles that you can watch being constructed live. I would propose that improving Wikipedia's cryptography articles would be a better bet than starting a new crypto wiki from scratch (or even importing articles from Wikipedia, as they're available under a free license). Wikipedia has a lot of visibility and momentum behind it, and new specialist topic wikis tend to fizzle out quite quickly, in my experience. One example is http://www.infosecpedia.org If anyone's interested in helping out on Wikipedia, people are *very* welcome. There's a Cryptography WikiProject, dedicated to improving crypto articles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Cryptography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Cryptography Also, Wikipedia is a multilingual project. I believe the German, and more recently the French Wikipedia editions have been quite active in this area. For example, the French "Crypto Portal": http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Portail_Cryptologie -- Matt Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Matt_Crypto Blog: http://cipher-text.blogspot.com ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]