On Fri, 7 Jan 2011, [email protected] wrote:
Hey all,
I'm attempting to create an extensive archive of papers on -graphy and
-analysis, locally stored and broken down by category/hierarchy,
according to my own personal taxonomy. Maybe one day I'll try to
figure out how to annotate their metadata in some way, possibly a
bibtex-to-filename-to-hyperlink mapping, and web apps to ease data
entry.
[SNIP]
I recall Schneier had an interesting self-study course in block
cipher cryptanalysis:
http://www.schneier.com/paper-self-study.pdf
Is there anything else out there like this?
For cryptanalysis, see Heys's survey "A Tutorial on Linear and
Differential Cryptanalysis",
http://www.engr.mun.ca/~howard/Research/Papers/ldc_tutorial.html
Also, here are three books I wish I had. Do they exist, or will I
have to compile them over the next decade or two?
0) Cryptographic Protocol Design
Something like this:
http://www.subspacefield.org/security/security_concepts/index.html#tth_sEc28.6
However, I think it could be made into an entire book, and covered in far
more detail and less like a "cookbook", but still accessible to security
engineers, as opposed to discrete math postgrads.
Of course, as far as a basic crypto reference goes I have to mention my
textbook "Introduction to Modern Cryptography", but that book is geared
more to people interested in theory than to practice. (On the other hand,
it does cover problems with using e=3 incorrectly for RSA, hash length
extension, chosen-ciphertext attacks, and some other things that fall into
your category 1 below).
1) Cryptography: A Study in Failure
Show cryptosystems and how they were broken or semi-broken, over the
years. That _is_ how we learn, right?
I'm thinking of knapsack, Kerb, e=3 SSL keys, hash length extension,
PKCS#7 padding oracle, and so on.
Maybe not exactly what you are looking for, but see lecture 9 here:
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~jkatz/security/f09/syllabus.html
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